| Show M a aa 2 M 6 M E SM E ira M E M M ewa M 3 7 af for 0 union workers I 1 important happenings in NIP industrial circles in this 1 country and europe 0 0 I 1 pittsburg pa not only on the bes semer lake erie railroad as grevl bously anno announced but on nearly a doz en other lines subsidiary to the united notates steel corporation la Is sunday work to be abolished it Is learned the order just issued for sunday rest of practically all of the great steel companies employed emp loyes in mills and rail roads Is to include upward of men it Is said railroads on which the order Is being put into effect are the youngstown northern the el gin jollet joliet eastern the duluth iron range the duluth mesaba masaba northern and the donora southern and the mercer valley Wilkes barre pa upon the advice of officers of the mine workers union the mine workers at the south wilkes bane bari e shaft of the lehigh wilkes barre coal company did not go on strike as they had intended the union officers hearing of the de desire ire to strike went to the men and told them that they would violate their agreement with the union it if they went out and that the best way to settle the difficulty was aa to have a commit tee present their grievances to the coal company berlin germany the general lock out of the building trades workmen which has been brought about by the failure of the employed emp loyes and workmen to agree upon terms Is on it affects workmen and the dally daily loss of wages will be it Is stated that the men have a reserve fund of 2 and that the unions will not distribute strike pay until the lock out has lasted at least a fortnight the men are opposed by an employers league which numbers 22 firms washington with the introduction of improved machinery in many lines of production the movement for short er hours became an imperative feces sity and Is gaining ground from year to year the first milestone was marked ten hours subsequently nine and eight hours became the slogan of the advancing forces it Is still march ing and never halts every year more men and women are enrolled under the banner of eight hours sacramento cal the federated and building trades councils have ap pointed a committee to make arrange ments for the reception on the visit to the capital city of the executive committee of the american federation of labor in the early part of may it if the committee accepts the invitation extended the laying of the corner stone of the labor temple will be made a feature of the visit washington general master work man hayes of the knights of labor Is preparing a semi political program it Is auld said to be his intention to have labor speakers go into the districts of members of congress who he believes are being unjustly assailed by the american federation of labor and defend them he ile declares he will do this in the interest of fair play and exact justice washington the last report of the american federation of labor shows that during the year 1909 statements were received from sixty eight inter national organizations showing that in the twelve months there were strikes involving 87 members of this number members were vere bei benefited edited and 9 40 32 were ere not three hundred and fortyune for forty tyone one of these strikes were ere won cincinnati peace reigns among the telegraphers of the baltimore ohio southwestern and the big four I 1 railroads as the committees arranging the increases on the two lines have finished their work on the former road the committee arranged an in crease of six per cent on the big four they arranged only the working conditions XV ashington the australian coal strike which Is now at an end lasted 18 weeks the bosq 1 in wages which it entailed amounts to over ca 1 of which the miners will have to bear three quarters pittsburg pa A vigorous campaign for union made goods has been start ed by the local branch of the ltv W omen omens s union label league des moines la about three fourths of the I 1 industries adu S tr 1 e 8 here her e a are re ashing asking for increased wages and prospects are bright for concessions cincinnati united brewery D work ers have gained a pat flat increase of 2 a week affecting about 1300 1 men bismarck N D the farmers or the society of equity is growing rapidly in this state oklahoma city okia okla printers have obtained an advance in wages streator III this city now has twenty one local unions st I 1 auls mo me the united hallways railways company announced a voluntary in crease of one cent an hour to all cm em aloyes on local street car lines num bering boring about 3 effective on may alay I 1 the new wage scale will have a minimum of 22 cents an hour and a maximum of 26 cents fall river mass twenty thousand cotton mill operatives were laid off cor for a week Thirty thirton Thir tot of the corporations many of which have been running five days a week since march 1 decided lo 10 cirtain production next week about 10 40 per cent because of the slack demand for print cloths new lierk the appellate division of the supreme court sustained the demurrer in a suit for 25 for libel brought by samuel stone as treasurer of the cloth examiners and spongers union of greater new york against the textile examiners and Sh employers association the suit was based on a letter written by the cm em players association to the central fed red crated union complaining that the plaintiff union was not living up to ita its agreements and that one of the defendant defendants s employed emp loyes had been black jacked at the instance of members ot of the plaintiff union springfield III the semi annual report of edwin R wright president of the illinois state federation ol 01 labor shows the federation to have enjoyed prosperity it if men and money were available the state president la Is ot of the impression thousands of new union men would be secured the report of secretary james r morris show receipts for the first six months of the fiscal year ending march 31 amounted to 6 with disburse ments of 5 leaving a balance ol 01 1111 on hand chicago the 16 nien men needed to install safety devices as required by recent legislative enactment in the coal mines of illinois will be fur dished by the united mine aline workers at a wage advance of 5 55 per cent it Is stipulated that the advance Is tor for the repair work only and Is granted without prejudice to future n negolia e cotla lions under the law the fireproof equipment electrical fire signals and other safety appliances must be placed in the mines by july I 1 pittsburg pa an advance in the pay of thousands of employed emp loyes of the united states steel corporation equal to 0 o about six per cent Is said to have been been decided upon the changes ex peeled are principally for laborers and men getting less than a month brisk business and scarcity of labor have aided in bringing about a better wage rate at present the shortage of labor at gary ind Is said to be the severest since work began there trenton N J the T john A hoeb ling ings a sons company whose plant in this city has been closed practically for ten days as the result of a strike among 1500 laborers offered to the strikers a schedule of wages on the piece system instead of the day rates paid laid heretofore the strikers decided to not accept the comp company anys s offer more than 5 employed emp loyes are out ol 01 work as a result of the strike boston all union carpenters in this city and vicinity are voting on the referendum proposition submitted to them by carpenters district council fhe workmen are asked to vote on whether they are in favor this year of 0 demanding a wage increase amounting to cents an hour for all the car penters des moines la the iowa mine operators have conceded a five per cent advance to the mine workers in no 1 as a working basis and provisional upon concessions from the mine workers the mine workers conceded the operators demand that all new mines in the be operated on the screen coal basis washington for the first five months of the fiscal year ending feb auary 28 the american federation of 0 labor issued charters to new unions for affiliation as against fifty two for the previous year the ami international unions issued chitters chir during the same period washington A special convention of electrical workers regulars and se ceders Is to be held in may to con fer for with the arbitration committee of 0 the american federation of labor to settle if 11 possible the difference that has existed in the trade in the last two wo years or more oakland cal every retail shoe lerk clerk in the city carries a union card this fact makes oakland the banner union city on the pacific coast so tar far shoe clerks are con corned huntington W va the united coal oil company employing sever al thousand men at holden W va anno announced an increase in wages for all employed emp loyes of five per cent effective on april 15 1 minneapolis minn the carpenters scale tor for this city Is now 45 cents an hour and the membership Is lina irately tely 1700 1 which Is an increase in the last year of about three hundred el paso tex boilermakers Boller Doller makers in rail road shops have obtained an increase of scents 2 cents an hour cleveland O 0 wireless telegraph ers have organized here scranton pa the delaware lack awanna western railroad corn com pany has announced a six 1 per cent increase in wages to all employed emp loyes in the transportation department this affects about 6 men the switch men are given an increase of three cents an hour 1500 1 being affected louisville ky A bill to have all employed emp loyes of the city work the eight hour day has been introduced in coun ell cil this will most likely become a law troy N Y the new headquarters of the international laundry work ers union have ben boen estabel established abed here L itta rf 1 1 |
