Show av ID w V V 0 san francisco at a CO conference be tween the lumber dealers assoria tion representing all the mills and lumber um er yar yards s on the e wa water er front in alameda county and the re presenta tives of the teamsters lumber ban diers tally clerks and the building trades council the employers offered a compromise proposition which gave an advance in wages of 50 cents a day to all men on the rollers 50 cents a day to pickup men in the yard 25 cents a day to the tally clerks they also agreed to pay the teamsters over time after 5 30 p in it was further understood that a closed shop should prevail the above proposition was submitted through the committee to the unions directly affected and was accepted by a large majority vote the increased wage scale goes into effect at once I 1 berlin germany german manlutac hirers are proverbial tor for their astute ness in respect of overcoming labor troubles the latest illustration Is the enthusiastic response to the tion that they should insure against strikes insurance companies em bracing practically all lines of indus try have sprung into being in ger many within the last couple of years or so and at the present time manu facture rs employing in the neighbor hood of 1200 men are carrying antistrike antl strike insurance turin italy the brickley bric klay ers union held a congress in this city from march 19 to 23 at w which it was resolved to join the general federa tion of italian trade unions to press tor for a reduction of hours to nine a day to increase the contributions which have hitherto only been levied during the summer months and to make them payable during 40 weeks alo to reorganize the executive corn com cittee the board of control etc new haven conn the N Y N II H H R R telegraphers have adjusted their wage scale matter the new agreement raises the pay of station operators seven per cent and that of to five per cent the men asked for an increase averaging about 11 II per cent the locomotive engi on the new haven system haac also securer fin In increased creage d wage aad scaled ule new york international president M E licht head of the retail clerks Is advised by the local in sacramento cal that the conditions in that city are better for the clerks than in al most any other city in the united states the hours are shorter wages more liberal and the large stores do not require the clerks to work sat arday nights berlin germany the troubles which recen recently aly led to the lockout of many thousands in the building trades council in germany have been settled tor for three years the berlin industrial court s arbitration award has been accepted by the union Ho pa members of the honesdale Ho branch ot of the shoemakers union will incorporate a company tor for the manufacture 0 of miners J shoes the product to bp marketed direct to the members of the united mine aline workers of america boston boston hebrew bakers union will not this year enforce its de mands for an eight hour day the local has decided to postpone the mat ter for a year in view of the general high cost of living dallas tex law laas s have been passed providing for bureaus of labor in ok lahoma and texas and changing an existing office in south carolina so as to give it largely the character of a labor bureau providence R I 1 six thousand op oo era tives employed in mills in this vicinity have been placed on a hort chort time schedule by the jurers in order to curtail production boston journeymen barbers union has decided to insist upon bet ferments ter ments in wages and hours this year the men say their conditions have not improved tor for 12 years melbourne australia the labor party of australia carried the last gen eral elections that party will have a majority in each bouse house of the corn com mon wealth parliament sioux falls S D in sioux falls there are 27 unions and aberdeen lead huron and deadwood are all well organized london eng the british trade union congress this year will open at sheffield on september 12 new orleans bakers international tinion union has decided to start the six day working neek eek in this city guthrie opa oklahoma has a law providing fo for a two inch square label on all convict made goods boston tile layers union an bounces that its wage scale Is tor for july I 1 the molders and Core makers unions of boston which have not had a wage increase since 1906 have de aided to make a request tor for better ments this year there are 35 em players the scale established in 1906 was 3 for the nine hour work day boston B M railroad has agreed to a new schedule increasing he the wages and bettering the hours of the station agents of the system he wage increases range from 20 cents a day to 20 a I 1 month e t ami i f springfield III operators of the belleville district and other southern illinois operators signed the scale with the miners union the belle ville operators were headed by R IN of belleville who at the joint conference of operators and ml ners was strong in his demand that the miners should agree to work for only such operators as were members of the illinois coal operators asso cla cia ion on another prominent opera tor of southern illinois who was pres ent was colonel randolph smith tor for years an officer of the state opera tors association the belleville and southern illinois operators action in signing the scale caused con sterna afon among the members of the oper acors association new york the new york legisla ture last year enacted a law the first of its class in the united states gov arning the employment of workman in mines and tunnels where compressed air Is used the hours of labor a day are regulated according to the degree of air pressure and provision Is mado made against too sudden changes from the place of work to the open air med leal ical examinations prior to employment or re employment reemployment after an absence of three or more days as well as after each three months continuous employ ment are prescribed f washington on our railroads three times as many employees are killed and five times as many are maimed each year as on the railroads of the united kingdom and the situation in our coal mines Is almost a as 8 bad for there each year we average a loss of three and one third put gut of every 1000 persona persons employed whereas in england the average Is two in ger many two and a half while in belgium the average Is one columbus O 0 miners of district no 5 comprising counties in south eastern ohio have overruled Nat national lonal president lewis of the miners organ according to a telephone mes sage rec received elvea from president edward k johnson of the lorain coal dock I 1 company union leaders and opera tors some days ago reached an agree ment but president lewis refused to sanction lon it tucson ariz an effort will be made by the friends of organized la bor at the forthcoming constitutional convention of arizona to have a clause against the indiscriminate use of the writ of injunction inserted in the organic law another measure which will be strongly indorsed by or labor will be an eight hour day for employees emp loyes loes on state work new york all the striking employ ees of the international paper corn coin arny returned to work under an agree ment entered into today between boffl cers of the company and officers ot of the Pulp makers and Paper makers unions the men receive an advance of six per cent to go into effect on august 1 and have gained recognition of the union new york the bill introduced la in the new york senate so amending city charters as to permit the boards of education to sell in open market the products of lonal truant trade and preparatory schools haa has aroused the active opposition of the new ork lork state mens federa don philadelphia by a vote of 3 to 1 I the membership of the brotherhood ot of leather workers on horse goods de aided in favor of increasing the wages of their general president and gen eral secretary treasurer from 90 to per month washington the label trades see tion of the american kine rican federation of labor Is notifying the central labor bodies that it Is prepared at this time to furnish the names and addresses of all manufacturers who use the onion anion label albany N Y the bill to license master electricians in new york de such opposition on the part of the electrical workers union and kindred organizations that it was killed in committee easton pa the bethlehem steel strike has been officially declared off the executive committee of the era ers accepting the terms offered by president schwab of the steel corn com pany elgin ill III the aigin national watch company on may 24 shut down its plant tor for two weeks the closing of the actori factory left 3 employees temporarily idle san francisco organized labor is 1 fast gaining in santa cruz county recently the bricklayers cement work ers plasterers and carpenters formed unions boston boston doston wood wire and metal lathers union 72 reports that every firm which was a party to last years agreement and one more big firm have agreed to this year years a increased wage rates the union haa has with the boston 0 L U and its building trades section scranton pa superintendent lloyd of the motive power department of the delaware lackawanna west cm ern railroad company and the ance committee of the lackawanna firemen have been granted an increase which averages 12 per cent and date dates from rom may 1 ti t i |