| Show 6 t UK 4 V I 1 WOM 0 richmond N a sympathetic strikes are unlawful according to a decision handed down by the united states cir cult court of appeals in which it sus talked a recent judgment of judge dayton of west the case was that of the hitchman coal goal and coke company against the united mine aline workers of america the corn com pany on october 24 1807 1907 procured a temporary temp orar restraining order which was later fol wed by a temporary in junction agalio the united mine aline workers of america restraining the miners horn interfering with the mi ml ning property owned and operated by the company near benwood W va the bill alleges that on april 1 1906 a strike was ina by the em aloyes of the mine and that this act on the part of the men was as without provocation and in response to a call issued by the united mine workers of america who designed in this manner to compel certain coal opera tors in other sections to accede to their de demands m ands the action of the ap e court ourt is to close the litigation in favor of the coal company and against the labor union new york according to the report of john williams state labor comm comin s eloner of new ew york 10 children under 16 years were found at work in fic factories tories in the state during the last year of this number or abo it eight per cent were employed con arary to law in 1906 fully 27 per cent of the children employed employed were under 16 years the sanitary conditions in department stores have become great ly improved and in some cases are in advance of the requirements of the law but of the 4 children em ein p oyed in such stoies es 2 2956 were em aloyed illegally youngstown 0 the 1st of april will see a great addition to the num ber of steel plants in the mahoning Ma Mal honing loning valley when the new tube plant of the republic iron and steel company and the new sheet mills and tube mills of the youngstown sheet and tube company will be put in operation the work of the construction Is progressing rapidly and the plans are certain to be ready by april I 1 it is announced more than 2 2500 men will mill be employed in the plants while additional depart ments will be completed tor for each corn com pany later pittsburg pittsburg Is to be a union shop so far as city employed emp loyes are concerned according to an an no made by director of public works armstrong hereafter Here aftel all applicants applying tor for city jobs must be union men and in case the civil service does not certify union men he will insist upon the appointees join ing ng a union before going to work arm strong argued before the salary revl sion committee recently that all city labor receive current union wages and aided in having the wages ad danced cleveland almost without excel tion the various local trades afons report that all indications point to a busy spring and in some branches of industry the demand for workers exceeds the supply there Is no like lahood that there will be any strikes or lockouts of any magnitude A num ber her of crafts have filed demands for higher wages but satisfactory ar range ments are being made and pre dictions are freely offered that the year 1910 will be one of the busiest in the history of cleveland minneapolis minn the printers of this city have commenced an agitation for a greater demand tor for the allied printing trades label on all articles that should carry it special commit tees have been appointed to make a house to house canvass and talk with all who have printing done on the subject of not giving work to firms that do not have the label washington the strongest central iced union in italy is that of the raft way men with v ith 44 mechanics and labor rs in the building trades with 41 printers 12 textile workers 11 government employed emp loyes 9 journeymen makers 9 wahington secretary nagel of the department of commerce and labor has announced that he will consider the suggestion for creating a bureau of investigation of the condition of workingmen and working women in the united states indianapolis ind the international typographical union has recently lost two of its former officers by death one andrew J williams of st paul minn twice president and the other maj E F mcintosh at one time sec see detary treasurer girard 0 big dig extensions will be made to the byers iron mill this sum mer it is said A tube mill is to be installed among other additions washington many unions have d dared in favor of the formation of an allied printing trades section of the american federation of labor binghamton N Y A special con of the electrical workers international union regulars and se ceders Is to be held here during tl e early part of may to confer with the american federation federation of labor arbi orators looking to ai a settlement of the differences between the two factions rockford III strike breakers in the various hosiery factories of rock ford struck and the plants are tied up more than 1000 men are idle union workers in other industries are lending financial assistance and are fusing to make repairs at the hoery very factories baltimore md As the men s e it three things stand out as of principal importance in the settlement of their differences with the baltimore ohio railroad as to wages and service con 1 dillons effected by the efforts of the federal board of mediation of these perhaps the most important Is the es of a minimum day oth rs scarcely less vital are the equa equalize liza za tion of wages the advances obtained running from nothing for some of tha the highest paid men to 13 per cent tor for some of those at the other extreme and the long step that has been made toward the establishment in the e east ast of the western standard of wages hereafter in the freight service miles or less or ten hours or less will constitute a day s work Greens greensbury burg pa three thousand miners in eight mines of the irwin fields of westmoreland county went on strike after a mass meeting the strike Is the result of organizing the miners in this section which has here tolore been non union and Is tor for rec ree ignition tion of the organization upon request of local miners several weeks ago organizers of district no 5 of the united mine aline workers of america came to the irwin fields and organ iced the men who now refuse to work with N ith nonunion men or those who re te fused to join the mine workers the discharge of 75 men officials of the new local precipitated the walkout boston principally because of the disorganization of the employed emp loyes it ts s considered unlikely that the babot troubles of the international paper company will result in strikes in any of the company s new england plants with the single exception of its bel lows falls vt mills where workers quit work nork A canvass of the various new england towns where the company has its mills shows virtually the same condition in all places I 1 though the employed emp loyes claim to have some grievances against the company no strikes are expected because ol 01 lack of Clil chicago cago wage agreements on the basis of the advance granted by the illinois state board of arbitration were signed by vice president A r whit ney of the brotherhood of railroad trainmen representing 2 chicago switchmen and chairman IP 0 melch er and the committee of genera general managers representing 13 railroads the men received an increase of about five live cents no time was as set for lor lorje jj expiration of the contracts ft IS ts ii 1 ly however that they will remain rema I 1 n irr force three or tour four years the switch men a committee Is satisfied bucharest the report of the rail roads owned by the government shows that among the employed emp loyes are men and women who are paid as low as ten cents a day the pay of these em ein closes es has not increased with the in crease of the cost of living A two pound loaf of bread costs six ana seven cents in roumania protests are heard against the government for un der paying employed emp loyes particularly now when a law is being discussed provi ding that no employer shall offer less than 20 cents a day to an employed washington while the population of the continental united states in creased 50 6 per cent during the years from 1880 to 1900 the total number of children from ten to fifteen years of age engaged in arale trade and transportation increased 5 per cent and of those engaged in manufacturing and mechanical pursuits 1134 4 per cent in spite of sentiment and legislation the number is still increasing corn com education and factory inspection are but insufficient safeguards IN washington ashington according to the plan mapped out by the executive council of the american federation of labor there will be only one organization of carpenters in this country after the first of june when a plan will be de to merge the amalgamated soci boci ety of carpenters with the brotherhood of carpenters and joiners the amal gania ted society Is of engleh origin with a membership of around 5 in his country the brotherhood has a membership roll of about boston morris biller secretary of the garment workers district council of boston states that the high cost of living has driven the men to a point where they must seek an increase in wages he sas s that the wages paid now are lower lorer than five years ago pittsburg pa are you in thy with the philadelphia brethren to the extent that it if called upon you would act in their support 7 to this ballot nearly 3 union motormen and conductors of the pittsburg street cars put an affirmative answer bo ton members of the boston cigar makers union will not gain ad bittance mit tance to the next of the i alon unless they wear hats bealing the union label such was the deci slon of the members of the executive board recently orange hi J three of the largest hat factories in this city closed down for an indefinite period owing it was stated to unsatisfactory trade condi conill eions salesmen on the road report practically no business the late strike and lockout which lasted tor for nearly nearl 19 months are said to be indi erectly responsible for the present bad business busine qs conditions albany N Y conductors and train trainmen on the delaware hudson railroad are to vote on the question of a strike as a result of the refusal of the company to grant their demands tor for a readjustment of the wage wag scale escale |
