Show world of lab or news from all paa parts ta of 0 the world of general 0 interest to the worker I 1 boston boton in its campaign to abao cutely tely organize the craft before june I 1 boston machinists lodge no 1 as secured more than 1200 1 new mem bers duding the past tour four months nearly have been admitted since february 24 on june I 1 the lodge will en deaNor to establish standard minimum wage rates for the three recognized subdivisions of the trade specialists all around machinists and tool makers and men employed at special mechanical lines it has been decided to have two special district organizing meetings each week neck from now on As one firm has discharged a couple of men solely on the gro ads that they have joined the in ion thomas L wilson international vice president has instructed the members to deny membership in the union if 11 necessary he says he does not be lieve in untruthfulness but it if the era em plovers are unscrupulous the men might just as well lie to them if nee essary boston intel national printing pressmen and assistants union has re reelected elected george L berry of san fi alcisco as president charles B crowley formerly of hoi yoke won election as secretary treas aurer defeating secretary P J mcmullan ln of cincinnati who was a candidate for re election boston printing pressmen s union no 67 and franklin association no 18 of junior pressmen assistants and feeders have both elected committees which will at once confer regarding pressroom con dillons in this city and vicinity both in regard to sanitation and health and also for trade conditions the pres ert agreement of the unions expires J jine ine I 1 the new requests will be de aided upon next month montclair N J the master build ers association of montclair in view oi 01 the manifesto of the local building trades unions that on and after may I 1 no union man will be permitted to work on a job where a nonunion man is employed has announced that it will furnish bonds to guarantee the completion of any job that any offis of its members undertake after that date the association claims to represent every trade required in the construe tion of a building and says it can fur nish the necessary mechanics to finish any job where the union men go on strike because of the employment of nonunion men vallejo cal the trades that are completely unionized that Is trades in which not a single nonunion man Is employed are the barbers bakers carpenters lathers laundry workers musicians pile drivers plumi ers sheet metal workers and printers other unions in which 95 per cent of the men employed at the respective trades are union men are the bartend ers electrical workers flour and cereal mill employed emp loyes federal retail clerks machinists painters and ship joiners st louis notice has been served on employers by the union plasterers painters grani told men and sheet metal workers that unless the wages ages u are increased 10 to 20 per cent they will strike the new scales are to take effect march may and june I 1 when existing contracts expire plasterers no r r get 5 cents an hour and demand ten cents more the mixers demand 44 cents an hour painters now re belve 60 50 cents an hour and demand 55 cents boston the proposed workmen s compensation act introduced in the massachusetts legislature proposes that any workman injured at his em shall be compensated by the payment of halt half the amount earned by him and that the dependents of a workman who Is killed shall be paid the amount which he earned tor for the last three years or 1000 1 whichever would be the larger but in no case over 2 trenton N J the T trenton street railway company announced an in crease from to 20 cents an hour following the demands made a few days ago upon the company by the employed emp loyes who lave 1 ave been secretly or gan izing for some months savannah ga after being granted an increase in pay from 2 cents an hour to 39 cents boilermakers on the central of georgia railway returned to work boston the various unions more than in all affiliated with the bos ton C L U are now voting on the questing of parading on labor day san francisco the alaska fisher men s union has voted to aff asthase liate with the san francisco labor council san francisco union stab emen are starting a movement against un anitaray stables worcester mass all four of the big railroad brotherhoods of tors trainmen engineers and firemen will have a joint union meeting here 2 3 and 4 at which president gov draper president mellen of the N Y N II 11 H railroad prest lent dent tuttle of the B M railroad mayor logan of worcester and other prominent men will speak montreal canada at the next of the trades and labor coun 11 the question of forming a civic fed aeration for the purpose of settling all abor labor troubles by conciliation and arbi will be considered e aAA Aia new ew lork the brotherhood of locomotive 0 o co firemen and engineers of the 32 eastern railroads have submit ted to the general managers assoria tion a formal demand for an increase in wages this demand la Is similar to that presented to the same roads last december by the order of railway conductors and the brotherhood of railway trainmen and abich are now in their final stage of negotiation general manager J C stuart of the erie refused to accept the demands as chairman of the general managers association declaring that he would meet a committee of the E ie le firemen I 1 but that the brotherhood would have to deal with each railroad separately and not phrot gh the general managers association which he said had no agreement concerning wages this re ply is to that ghen the con doctors and trainmen boston for the first time in the history of trade fin unionism in this city members of the bartenders union were called on strike at three shops to en force a wage scale and working hours schedule the schedule which ashes a minimum wage rate of 0 18 a wee for the men was adopted by practically all the employers on january I 1 A dozen or more did not agree at that time since the commit tees of the union and the boston C L U have been endeavoring to amicably adjust the matter and had succeeded with 11 but five firms the union men won its contention at two of 0 the places strack last week its expect ed that the other shops will be struck it if the conditions are not established boston april I 1 is the date set by boston painters union 11 for its 1910 wage scale to go into effect it calls for a minimum rate of 20 for the 44 hour work week for house painters and 22 20 for decorators the pres ent rates are 41 cents an hour for house painters and 46 cents an hour for decorators the men already have the 44 hour week east boston paint ers union also last week adopted the same scale and hour demands for house painters and for ship painters the same rates per hour but permit ting the 48 hour work week in that branch city of mexico there will ripe noue a walkout of american d conductors in the employ of taja abris lional lines of mexico the employed emp loyes and the railroad management having agreed upon terms of settlement of their difficulties the wording of the peace pact may never be published both the employed emp loyes and the railroad of ficiala refuse to divulge its contents saying only that the agreement was satisfactory to all concerned paris france the old age w N man a pension bill which insures to every laborer in town or country a pension at the age of 65 and will cost france an additional year ly may now be considered as voled the senate has agreed to make only very slight amendments and the chamber on the eve of the general elections will undoubtedly pass the bill when it comes back to it from the senate chicago the report of the internal dional union of plumbers for the last year shows that during that period 33 charters were issued to new unions 53 unions surrendered charters 29 strikes were inaugurated ted the cost oi of which was 29 and sick benefits to the amount of 27 and death bene fits amounting to 8 were paid joplin mo seven hundred miner employed at the plants of the amell can zinc lead and smelting corn com pany struck for higher wages re bently when the price of zinc ore fell to 40 the men s wages were cut and although zinc blend has gone to 45 46 the former pay has not been restored new york the special referendum vote taken throughout the country re centy by the piano and organ workers resulted in favor of a temporary deduc tion of the initiation fee from five tc to gwo dollars ind ana anapolis polls ind the smallest av crage monthly paid up membership ol 01 the united mine workers of america since its organization in 1890 was in 1896 when the number was 9 new yoi yolk k of the 12 sale en in new york department stores one third are wives and mothers the greater part of these having taken po sitione after their marriage newark N J typographical un on no Is the first union to abolish all overtime in book news and job offices no member is allowed hereafter tc accumulate any overtime washington union metal worker in italy number 8 ov owing ing to trade depressions the membership has fallen from 15 boston the 65 cents an hour wage rate for the boston union plasterer went into effect without friction the men struck for the rate last summer an agreement was nas then made by which aich the mens wages were raised from 60 to 62 cents an hour then and the 65 cents an hour rate to be come effect effective iNe march 1 boston boston doston pavers union 1 the larger number of the members of which go south to work during the winter resumed meetings last week the season will begin within a week or so it Is stated some of the men this year worked in havana |