| Show AD 0 w 0 cleveland 0 work Is being rushed on the new skyscraper office building being erected at saint clair avenue and ontario street by the brotherhood of locomotive engineers the build ing will be completed about may I 1 the motherhood of engineers decided on the building venture as an invest ment for surplus cp ital on hand when completed the skyscraper will represent an investment of about 1 work was begun last march an auditorium with a seating capac ity of 1400 1 will be a feature of the building A 10 pipe organ which will be available tor for concerts and re vitals will be installed the drither hood hod of locomotive engineers will oc cupy all of the eleventh floor butte mont ciless there are un foreseen developments all the mines in the butte d strict will close as i I 1 result of a jurisdictional labor dis A committee comit tee representing the international engineers union waited on the superintendent of the amalga mated copper mining company and announced that the jurisdiction of the union must be recognized the corn com cittee also claimed jurisdiction over the pump men compressor men fire men and officers of the mm min ers union said that the ltv western estern federation of miners would furnish enough engineers to operate the mines and thus a long shut down may b avoided boston the work for the raising of the fund for a memorial monument on the grave of the late frank B mon aghan at forest hills cemetery has been started by the executive board of the massachusetts state conference of steam attain engineers union the fund will be the tribute of the engineers of the country and no other persons or organizations will be asked or allowed to contribute mr monaghan was ras an ex international president for years a national councilor and at the time of his death last summer was the editor of the international union journal st louis following a conference in this city with james elliott dent of the southwestern coal opera tives association thomas L lewis president of the united mine workers of america departed for indianapolis India napoli before leaving the city lewia hewl said that 15 questions of minor importance relating to the affairs of the miners in the southwest had been taken up but that no decision had been reached wage agreements were not discussed he said boston march I 1 the 65 cents an hour rate will go into effect for the members of boston operative plaster ers union 10 the men struck last summer for an increase from 60 to 65 cents an hour A compromise was made by which the men then re 62 cents an pour hour and the 65 cents an hour rate w ras as to go into ef feet march 1 of this year the will enforce the agreement if feces sary it Is stated topeka kan the work of organ bation Is being carried on steadily kansas new unions have formed within the last two as follows in emporia a typo graph leal ical union in atchison Atch lson a machinists union in horten a telephone opera tors union in III kansas city kan plumbers union and in pittsburg printing pressmen press mens s union boston boston building laborers district council has decided that its wage request this year will be tor for five cents an hour which if secured mill make the new rate 35 cents an hour the members of the six unions of boston cambridge and brookline will have a mass meeting su iday febri ary 27 to take tale final action on the matter indianapolis ind the al typographical union has taken a special referendum vote on the prop position to establish a mortuary bene fit in accordance with a resolution adopted at the recent convention of the international worcester mass in this city april 3 will be held a meeting of the trail ervice men of the united states can ada and mexico and the bead head of every railroad system of the country will attend and speak washington six countries already have agreed to send representatives to the international congress on child welfare in this city in may indianapolis ind of the coal miners in north america only are within the united mine workers new bedford mass there are 27 cotton mill operatives here and about the same number in fall river chicago in death benefits the car pesters penters paid out 56 last year augusta me general organizing work will be undertaken in an en deavor to absolutely organize machin ista in new england states before may I 1 when according to the present pro gram a demand for the eight hour work rork day and substantial wage in creases will be made at eveia point wheeling W va the girls era em aloyed in stripping tobacco in the pollack stogie factories who have been out on a strike for two weeks have won a victory the management discharged the and the girls protested the management rein reinstad stat pd the at A chicago the possibility of a strike of 4 switchmen employed in the chicago switching district of IS 18 rail roads was believed to have been avert ed when the parties at dispute agreed to submit the question to the 1111 ili nois state board of arbitration the switchmen who are members of the brotherhood of railway trainmen de banded an increase in wages of five cents an hour and time and a half for overtime both sides signed an agreement to arbitral tl TI e men voted for a strike but F 0 melchor vice president of tl tj e hock rock island and chairman of the general passengers passenger a committee said no strike was now possible the application for arbitha tion was filed at springfield III Wilkes barre pa there is con ster nation among the anthracite min ers in this region over a decision of the luzerne county mining board to recall all certificates issued to the many thousands of miners in this county and to examine every man as to his fitness to hold a certificate under a pennsylvania law a man must have two years experience in hard coal mining before he can ob tain a certificate to work as a miner the decision of the board is due to the finding of large numbers of fraud alent certificates throughout the coun ty the inexperienced men endanger ing the safety of mine workers and mine property prop propel eity ty new now york between 5 and 6 structural iron workers employed by he members of the iron league aree tors association have received an in crease in wages of 30 20 cents a day dating from the beginning of this month and on july I 1 another advance of 20 cents a day will go into effect which will bring up the wages to five dollars a day the highest structural iron workers have yet received the wage increase was voluntarily granted by the employers boston john C dyche of new york general secretary of the ladles ladies garment workers union has sent word that the entire energies of the international will be concentrated in securing a complete victory tor for the boston ladles tailors and dress makers union in its prolonged battle against several local open shop fir the work of organizing the boston shirtwaist and white goods makers is progressing most satisfactorily it is said south bethlehem pa A point for the bethlehem steel company in the strike controversy was the decision of the steel molders not to strike to keep the molders at work the corn com pany granted them part of their de mands jacob Tazz ller lier of washing ton representative of samael gomp ers arrived and took charge of the fight for the men the agitators say they propose to get out the entire 10 employed emp loyes of the plant boston john B lennon who rho will retire next july has been at the head of the international journeymen tailors for nearly a quarter of a cen tury and for almost as long a time has been a prominent figure in inter national labor circles As treasurer of the american federation of labor and a member ot of the executive coun ell cil of the american federation of la bor mr lennon has always been in the limelight washington A popular error in fit re gard to the number of industries in which women were employed during the first quarter of the last century limits their occupation to five or six the mills shoemaking cigar mak ing sewing the manufacture of cloth ing and printing actually statistics from the industrial reports of that period show that over one hundred occupations were open to women new york the executive body ol 01 the barber international union has given notice that hereafter no dele gate to the international body will be seated it if he does not wear clothing bearing the union label london eng the great northern railroad of ireland has issued a notice that employed emp loyes reaching the age of 60 63 years must resign their eions no pensions will be granted new york the linotype machinists of Nan manhattan lan hattan have established tor for themselves an official organ under the title typesetting machine engineers journal new york there was a notable decrease in the number of violations of new york a s child laboi law last year and fewer children were em aloyed washington there wei e about twenty national or international unions in the united states in 1881 in 1907 there were upward of newport eng the labor party convention voted down a resolution to change the title under which the par ty tys s candidates should stand for par diament from labor labor to labor and socialist by a vote of 1492 1 to 44 A resolution was as adopted demanding laws to enfranchise women and pay members of parl ament boston just 4 0 clerks employed in the general offices of the B M railroad system in this city were granted a wage increase of ten per ent last week the requests of the clerks in the local office I 1 and the ight clerks are still keiding i it A ajr mtv aft ka lai i |
