| Show WORLD OF LABOR Birmingham Ala Is to have a labor t mple temple S J S SSan San Francisco barbers barbers' have the largest union S S S Rochester N. N Y labor m men n number about S S S Toronto letter carriers leter have demanded more pa pay S S The Tho United d Workers Mine spent 5 in strikes last year S 5 Toronto stenographers and bookkeepers will wi be organized S S S Thee The Kansas Supreme court has sustained sustained sus sus- tamed the hour eight-hour labor law 5 5 5 Railway machinists are making ready for a general demand for the nine-hour nine day S S Pittsburg Pitsburg machinists donated to help their striking workmen fellow workmen elow-workmen at San Francisco Fracisco S I S The Te San Francisco Labor council last year donated to aid the strikers in that city S S S New York l labor bor men are discussing the question queston of ot putting up a candidate for Governor this fallS fall fal S 'S S S labor unions have opened a blacksmith shop where striking members members members mem mem- bers can secure employment S S S Wheeling W. W Va street-car street men will wU renew their demand for 20 cents an hour They rejected the company's offer ofer S S S The International Car company of ot Toledo Toledo Toledo To To- ledo whose machinists are on strike for fora a nine hour day has offered a ten ten-h ten hour ur day S S S The ine B Brakemen's e s union at r New ew Haven c Conn r has asked the Consolidated e roa road for a ten-hour ten day at 2 2 a day with pa pay for overtime S S S The paper-makers paper of Kaukauna Kan Han have decided not to strike for a shorter workday but Instead voted to accept the I 10 per cent advance offered them S S S The Te officials of the United MineWorkers Work Mine ers Ers have ordered the 20 strikers at at Fayette City to return to work and await the de decision of a conference in regard to their grievance ther S S t. t Ninety per cent of the printers of Germany Germany Germany Ger Ger- many are organized making the strongest union in that country The Te total membership membership membership mem mem- Is 28 They now have in the bank S S S Carpenters Carpenters' unions in the Pacific coast cast cities are moving for the hour eight hour day fot for the the coming spring The Te minimum wage is 3 a a day with wih 50 5 cents an hour for overtime S S S Twenty-one Twenty labor unions in Milwaukee Insist that the present wage schedule with wih the brewers which expires in May must be renewed and th that t the workmen must be granted an hour eight-hour day S S S Three thousand miners are compelled to to work only third one time on account of ot the Ice on the Monongahela river This with the shortage of cars has ha al almost almost almost al- al most stopped the output of ot coal In that region a S S The consolidated road New York New NewHaven NewHaven Haven Hartford has agreed on a uniform schedule of wages Train engineers engi engi- nears ners will wi hereafter receive 3 5 50 a day passenger train firemen fremen 2 train freight-train engineers n 4 and train freight-train firemen fremen a day S S S S Third Vice President W. W C. C Brown has ha i issued an official order Increasing the wages ages of trainmen switchmen and yard an foremen of ot the New York Central railroad railroad rail rail- rai- rai road 5 per cent This order places the New York Central rates on a parity with the Pennsylvania railroad r rates tes S S S Pittsburg u city employees e were re last t week grI granted th the yEc hour eight g rg day a The order applies apples to tol all laborers In the park street and buildings service of the city and in all an branches branchEs of unskilled labor They number nearly 2000 20 and now nw work nine hours The pay will wi remain the same S S S 1 i iLos Los Ls Angeles business men are considering considering considering consid consid- ering etall establishing a operative co-operative department department department depart depart- ment store A. A H. H co president of ot the Southern California fruit exchange E. E T T. Dunning attorn attorney y for the Wholesales Whole Whole- sales ales Board of Trade A. A R. R Sprague president of the growers fruit ex exchange hange and a number of others are Interested S S S Andrew n Carnegie E has donated for th the workingmen I S new e hospital at Pittsburg Flits Pitts- t burg He sent his check to Patrick Patrik Dolan Dolan Do- Do lan Ian district president of the United MineWorkers Mine Mine- Workers of America Ameria who Is also ls district president association of t the The hee t Workingmen's Carnegie f donation at Hospital OP will be made the nucleus for a public sub sub S S S Manager William Wilam M. M r Warren Waren of Parke Davis Co manufacturing pharmacists of Detroit Detroi proposes to Issue shares of its capital stock and permit the oldest among Its Is employees especially those thos In Important positions as managers su super auer- er- er and foremen to purchase this new tock stock at 55 a share Th The T present market value valle of or the stock Is 70 a share and face value alue 25 a share share Chicago Building Trades unions In carrying off on oI strikes intend to have havethe the assistance of at a central organization similar to the old Building Trades Trades coun- coun Representatives fili el ot or twenty-three twenty trad trades s in the building industry met at headquarters and appointed a committee to draft a constitution for the new body Laborers plasterers and electrical workers workers work work- ers were not represented The carpenters and bricklayers will wl not enter into the plan without further consideration S S S The Brotherhood of ot Carpenters and Joiners of America Ameria by a a referendum vote has decided not to call cal a special convention conven- conven tion ton to c consider n ilder the charges a against P. P J. J McGuire formerly the broth brotherhoods brotherhood's general treasurer secretary who is charged charge with having b been en S O short In his accounts The Theote vote ote on the special convention proposition was 10 yeas and 10 nays McGuIre's McGuIres case case will wi not be considered until the regular convention meets next September at Birmingham Ala S 'S S S The decision rendered by Judge Beattie Beatte in the Orange County court at Newburg N. N Y that the hour eight-hour law Is unconstitutional unconstitutional has ha aroused the workingmen of New York to lighting fighting pich pitch and they have resolved resolve to operate co-operate operate c-operate with the State Commissioner of Labor In an an effort efort to have the Court of Appeals Appals reverse rever Judge JUde Seattle's Beatties Beattes Beatte's ruling which In substance was wa that it Is unconstitutional for the Legislature Legis Legis- days day's lature work to arbitrarily limit the I length nh of f a |
