Show boston may day generally regard ed as the first day in the industrial year found in new england 10 kofl working people at odds with their em players largely because of demands foi wage increases the 4 union trolley men in springfield worcester and other places in western massa chu and in connecticut on street railway lines oe operated rated by the new england investment and securities company a trolley holding company company for the new york new haven and hartford railroad awaited only the sanction of their national officers be fore calling a strike pittsburg pa coal operators in the pittsburg district signed the wage scale the mooted powder question was settled in a satisfactory manner and the miners strike ended with a two years agreement effective at once under the highest wages ever paid ta in this district about 40 miners throughout the pittsburg dis brict returned to work millions of bushels tied up in the pittsburg bar bor since april I 1 as a precautionary measure tor for home supply started south and there was a general re of coal shipments on the lakes indianapolis the new wage scale of the sign painters gives the men 25 cents more on the day which makes the indianapolis scale 3 75 a day this is less according to the work men than is paid in chicago st louis cincinnati and louisville while the scale has not been signed no trouble Is anticipated from the em plovers as a number of them have said they would sign it the sign painters are enjoying a prosperous season practically all of them are employed at present and there are demands for men that cannot be met new york the eight hour strike of the international union of leather workers is proving successful many large employers agreeing to the demands of the men this success is at ri buted to the scarcity of men as advert sing tor for men has ailed failed to uncover enough independents to urn out the work although advanced are offered pittsburg pa the jones and laughlin steel company advanced the wages of about b 0 ut 4 of its employed emp loyes beginning b e binnin g nl ith th atay 2 the t Is about 6 fer er cent and will amount to about 15 a month ane re public iron and steel company has also announced an increase of 6 per cent effective may 2 kansas city mo all the demands of df the 35 striking miners of mis bourl kansas oklahoma and arkan sas have been refused by the executive committee of the southwestern coal operators association it was an no meed after the meeting that all negotiations were at an end detroit micha the detroit united railway to its motormen and conductors who ho have been threat ening to strike a new wage tion employed Emp loyes of IS 18 months standing are offered 28 cents an hour six months 26 cents less than six months 23 cents youngstown 0 an average in crease ot of about six per cent has been granted 6 workmen at the youngs town sheet tube company and 6 5 at the plants of the republic iron steel company common labor Is ad danced ten cents a day chillicothe Chilli 0 O ninety machinists helpers elpers it and apprentices employed at the shops of the baltimore ohio southwestern railway company here went on strike in sympathy twilit the baltimore ohio strikers at mont clair N i los angeles cal there are now 92 labor unions in this city all housed in the seven story labor temple recent ly dedicated in 1887 there were only two labor organizations in that city the t typographical and carpenters cincinnati refusing to accept a compromise offer of 47 cents an hour carpenters today toted to go on strike the carpenters demand SO 50 cents an hour the present wage ecale scale Is 45 cents an hour roxbury mass the trouble in the mills of the international paper corn com pany now several months old still continues four hundred mill oper atiles are out at greenville R I 1 and at this point st louis machinists of the massou rl ri pacific railroad who struck for an increase in wages were ignored at the railroad a headquarters chicago chicago bill posters have gained a three dollar a week increase find improved conditions pittsburg pa lion holders molders inter national union now has a membership of df approximately 60 50 guthrie okia okla oklahoma printers ire jubilant over the new state printer bill passed at the present session of the legislature this act requires can fl to have at least eight years ex peri ence as a journeyman printer and the term journeyman printer la Is de fined as a printer who has served an apprenticeship of at least four years new york four bundled thousand employed emp amp loyes of railroad companies and obder big corporations have received voluntary wage increases from their employers since january 30 according to a statement prepared b an jon of employers emp loers in this city new york strikes against bakeries which have for years been run on the open shop plan were ordered by the journeymen bakers and confectioners international union the strikes in evolving 6 men affect among others the big bakery of the fleisch mann company at eighty first street and east end avenue several of t the e i shops of the cushman baking leq h pany and about five other places and is for a nine hour workday and anad vance of 1 a week in wages but the real demand Is for a union agreement most of the strikers are germans and bohemians minneapolis minn tva 0 ra decisions were rendered by alln e sota state supreme court recen in cases relating to damages fo trial accidents one opinion entirely repudiates the heretofore understood assumption of risk on the part of the employed emp loyes and holds that employers should provide all possible safeguards against accidents the second decision eliminates the fellow servant rule and means that an employer Is liable in the event of an employed being in aured on account of the negligence or carelessness of a fellow employed new york two may day parades one distinctively socialist and the other distinctively union converged on union square from opposite ends of manhattan island in the socialist ranks it Is estimated that there were 2 in line and in the union ranks 25 there was no disorder ten thousand girls shirtwaist makers wearing white caps bound with red and red white and blue waists won on the approval of a thoroughly good natured crowd wherever they passed washington the A F of L Is tz se curing the names and addresses of all clergymen of each city the comment cation of secretary frank morrison of the A F of L explains that it Is the desire of the federation to keep in close touch with the clergymen as there are a number of matters of in terest to both the clergymen and mem b rs of organized labor which the ted led aeration propose to refer to the clergy men boston the building trades in providence pawtucket newport and auburn in rhode rode island arx anjila ip fall river mass freie crippled 1 he strike of 2 carpenters and laborers seeking increases in wages in fitch ritch burg gardner and leominster mass and in portland me the carpenters may strike tor for the same reason about men are involved in these latter places washington president gompers has been directed to enter into correspondence spon dence with the farmers eions relative to the organizing ot of farm laborers and laborers in small towns or rural communities with a view to operation cooperation in the interests of the men on the farms as well as in industry san francisco the wonderful growth of the san francisco building trades council Is a favorite theme of labor leaders throughout the country in many of the larger cities ot of the east the building industry Is being or has been reorganized on lines laid down by this local council brockton mass the high cost ot of living has moved the union workmen of thia this city to establish a cooperative store where the necessaries ot of life mal ma be purchased at the lowest pos sible cash prices the movement 14 1 supported by practically every labor organization in brockton new york the erie railroad railroads a wage difficulties with its firemen have been adjusted by an advance adi ance of S 8 2 10 per cent to the men the company is still negotiating with its trainmen conductors and shop forces the agreement with the firemen takes et ef feet from april 15 saginaw alien the first and most important step towards reopening the coal mines of michigan and returning 3 men to work has been settled here by the scalo scald committee the op orators granted the mines the increase asked tor for cincinnati three hundred and fifty union carpenters went out on strike here for an increase in wages ages from 40 to 50 cents an hour about seventy five contractors have signed the new scale toluca ill more than miners returned to work under the temporary agreement by which safety and fire fighting appliances may be installed pending settlement of the wage age dis offs chicago there Is a rumor that all the railroads rall rail may follow the example of the B 0 and bar women em aloyes philadelphia J 0 h n aged thirty six years of this city a union conductor was shot and killed during a fight between union and non union motormen and conductors victor farrell aged twenty one years a nonunion man admits the shooting but maintains that he shot in self defense la crosse WIs the brewery work era ers strike has been settled the men won vion on all points A wage increase in creise of two dollars a week was as granted and the work vork day which had been nine hours was aas out to eight various i demands were granted aa A a A i I 1 |