Show GOSSIP FROM THE WORLD OF INDUSTRY Echoes of the Busy Mill Milland Milland Milland and Mine Mine Doings Doings of the Bread Breadwinners winners Engineers and fir firemen t ei-t on the Illinois Central demand an Increase In wages The strike of the plow workers a at Springfield Ill III has lias been lost and declared declared declared de de- oft off Y v Che f I If The Wood Oil Chemical ical company will a plant at Sav Savannah nn h Ga G Ga to u utilize refuse lumber Twelve thread plants In Willimantic Conn Honn have been taken over by the AmerIcan American Amer Amer- ican lean company The Th Pennsylvania railroad will spend about In Improving the shops west of Pittsburg Georgia mill owners say they will fight tight any bill Introduced in the State Legislature Legislature Legisla Legisla- ture seeking to prohibit child labor Sheet h and tube u workers of Youngstown n O 0 are being organized rbi by Th the national fo i officials of the Amalgamated association Despite President Roosevelt's threats of removal the postoffice ice clerks In the Southwest are petitioning for an eight hour lour day T The Prussian 1 Minister of Public Works Work's Works has las forbidden collections among empl yes for purchasing presents for tor their superior officers The Eastern Minnesota-Great Minnesota Northern interests are to erect the tie largest ore do doCkIn dock k kin In n the world on Allouez bay Lake Superior Supe Supe- n or L f fA A new national l labor b r organization willbe will willbe willbe be formed to be known as the Sheet Workers' Workers National n l Alliance Eastern capitalists are to erect an Immense Immense Immense Im Im- Im- Im mense Iron foundry at Stockton Cal Cat and manufacture mining machinery for the Pacific coast The Core Makers' Makers International union has appealed to the Iron Molders' Molders union of North America of f mutual assistance during strikes White miners of Colorado are protesting against the importation of ot Japanese labor la labor labor la- la bor and strikes were not infrequent durIng during during dur dur- ing the past month The subordinate locals of ot the Iron Molders' Molders union of North America have voted down a proposition to increase the number of Organized workingmen of or Grand Rapids Rapids Rapids Rap Rap- ids Mich are planning the erection of f a trade and labor temple modeled on the lines followed by the Y M M. C. C A. A A large number of men in the shops of ot the Pennsylvania lines at Fort Wayne ayne Ind have received an advance In pay It Is said that the advance was not asked for The House C Committee on Labor of ot the National Congress announces that hear hearIngs hearings ings logs for the consideration of ot the the eight eight- hour bill will begin on March and oc occupy occupy occupy oc- oc cupy a total of eight days Proctor Gamble the soap manufacturers manufacturers manufacturers are to erect five seed cotton-seed mills in Southern o cities cities Atlanta Atlanta and n Augusta U Ga Salem Ark tl Memphis IS Tenn e and d Little Rock Ark Officials of ot the American Bridge company company com company com com- pany refuse to grant a uniform hour eight day and a general increase se of f wages but there has been no serious breach with the wor workers e s as yet The Norfolk W Western stern after an extended ex ex- tended conference with representatives of the telegraph operators employed employee bythe bythe by bythe the company has granted the operators an Increase of pay Edward Boyce Dyce head d of ot the We Western tern Federation of Miners and leader of the recent recant strikes In In northern Idaho h has s made a mining strike that has brought him an offer of or The New York Tork Central Hudson River has ordered 1000 Lox box cars of O pounds capacity a from the h I Illinois II c Car and PE Equipment Equipment Equip Equip- I ment company and also 1000 from from- the Pullman company Members of ot the union employed employed employed em em- by a firm at Colorado Springs disputed disputed disputed dis dis- the right of their employers employers' to select new men and a a. lockout of the is the result |