| Show aw 0 UN 4 aj boston boston tile layers and help ere ers union struck to enforce its new increased wage scale and agreement at every shop they won all the men were back at work within two days the union some time ago asked for or a wage increase of five cents an hour for both mechanics and helpers which would make the desired new rates 5 20 a day tor for mechanics and 3 a day for or helpers the employers offered 5 a day to the mechanics and 2 75 a day to the helpers and also asked a new rate of 2 a day for green helpers the mechanics union accepted the 5 offer the helpers offered to accept 2 80 a day and also would not stand for the green men suggestion As both unions work as a unit in all matters all the men of both did not report for work vork next day conferences resulted in the employers agreeing to the helpers suggestion and all bands hands went back to work under the new rates new york beginning august I 1 the members of the amalgamated sheet metal workers who recently settled a strike on all buildings where car penters were hanging hollow metal doors or setting hollow metal trim re calved an increase in wages of 25 cents a day making their w ages 4 75 a day the agreement under which the strike was settled which provided that the question as to which trade should do the disputed work be ar bit rated also provides that on jan uary 1 1912 the wages shall be fur ther increased to 5 a day the sheet metal workers say they expect to get the right to the disputed work under the arbitration proceedings boston international jewelry workers union convention held in this city decided to ask for a wage age increase of 25 per cent from all the manufacturers of the country the increased cost of living and the low wage scale in the industry demands euch such an increase it was stated the convention also stated that the jew eiry elry workers union has been award cd ed by the A F of L the jurisdiction over all metal badges medals u fobs and metal jewelry and its union label will be recognized for each kansas city mo nine members of the board of united mine workers of america are to aid thomas L lewis president in negotiations with oper acors looking to a settlement of the coal strike in the southwest they are miles dougherty pennsylvania james D mclennan nova scotia thomas P leahey fabey wyoming thomas J smith tennessee grant parker missouri J D winters oklahoma and arkansas william 0 brien kan BBS sas and john R lawson colorado stockton cal after being on strike tor for three months the harness makers and the employed emp loyes have come to an agreement and the labor trouble I 1 to settled the harness makers struck for eight hours and 15 per cent in crease in pay for piece work recent ly it was announced that an agreement had bad been reached whereby the men will work nine hours as before but v III be paid an increase of 10 per cent for day work and 5 per cent tor for piece work washington the american fed aeration of labor has made a remark able growth since last october th tha report of secretary frank morrison Morr lson shows that charters have been Is sued in the last eight months while were issued for a corresponding period last year of the new organ Izat lons ions 98 are local unions 66 fed eral labor unions 57 city central labor bodies 1 international union and 1 state federation pittsburg pa the iron age states that the iron and steel markets have shown no meas measurable drable change during the past week the policy of the rail roads to buy on the most sparing scale Is making more impression on the general situation as the summer ad vances structural work is one of the mainstays of the steel trade and all the important fabricating plants nave work that will carry them well into the tall fall new york the labor law of new york state has been amended to pro vide that where total or partial in capacity for work results from injury a weekly payment not exceeding 50 per cent of average weekly earnings f Is to continue during the period of in capacity the death allowance Is to be 1200 times dally earnings but damages in no case are to exceed denver col after devoting oni on entire day to consideration of the lock out in force against union miners in the black hills district ot of south da kota the western federation of ml MI 4 f ners voted an assessment of 2 a mem her ber to aid the strikers at the home stake mine owned b mrs phoebe hearst the sum raised by the as ses will be washington the agricultural la borers union in italy has had a corn com ively quiet year in 1909 only strikes having taken place which involved 46 men most of which namely took place in the north ern provinces piedmont lombardy venetian province and in emilia twenty eight strikes were entirely successful 67 partly 42 were lost and of three the issue Is not known lowel mass N Y N 11 H R R station agents are to ask tor for an in crease in their salary schedules A conference will v III be held at new haven this mon 11 IL new york the iron trade review says the iron trade Is becoming recon died cited to decreased business from tain industries especially jurers of automobiles and lake ship building concerns specifications against contracts tor for finished mate rials are coming out at a very fair rate but new business Is limited some concerns find that tonnage al at ready handled for a little over halt half of the twelve months insures a good record even if business should be come depressed for the remainder of the year weakness in prices of fin dished materials continues to be a tea fea ture lure of the market especially in steel sheets and wire products in which lines there Is 1 much talk of an a ex pecked new card naming lower prices which have been more or less gen geri eral tor for some time washington A satisfactory adjust ment of the controversy between the virginia hallway railway company and its en ginders has been reached the dif ferencek teren feren ces have been under considers cons con sidera tion by chairman knapp of the inter state commerce commission and dr charles P neill commissioner of la Is bor for several days in some respects the controversy was one of the most obstinate proceedings the media tors have had to handle the engi engl obtained on an average an in crease of approximately 10 per cent in wages engineers driving locomotives of the mallet type a double en gine with a large single boiler will get an increase of about 20 per cent this increase established a precedent in the pay of operating locomotives of that type boston boston laundry workers union composed largely of women elected delegates to the political ac convention of the boston C L U and instructed them to ask the convention to consider the attitude of state senators and representatives on women s suffrage when deciding as to who is friendly and who is unfriendly to labor labors s measures the A F of L the massachusetts state branch and the boston C L U all have declara eions in favor of woman suffrage and also tor for equal pay for equal work tor for men and women in their constitutions and declarations of principles pa serious rioting dynamiting ting and train wrecking have taken place along the line of the dela m ware are and hudson railroad between this city and carbondale where 1200 1 section hands are striking in a riot at carbondale one was killed and six injured the tracks of the road un der the laurel line viaduct at avoca were dynamited and blown out in the yards at hudson three miles from this city fishplates were removed spikes were drawn and the rails re placed so that they were ere spread two inchez boston the governor of massachi Mass achu setta has signed a bill regulating ad verti and solicitations tor for workers during strikes lockouts and other labor troubles the bill pro vides that if an employer advertises for help to fill the places of strikers he must mention in such advertise ment that a strike or lockout or labor disturbance exists the law carries a maximum penalty of tor for each violation of its provisions the bill Is now operative washington the trade unionists employed on the panama canal are preparing to demand a 20 per cent wage increase these men are paid by the hour e the nonunion men receive regular salaries and are al at owed lowed a month months s vacation each year on pay it Is said that if the union ests were allowed paid vacations their demands would be withdrawn other wise some eight thousand men are re ported to be ready to strike boston the steps for an increased wage demand by the longshoremen of the port of boston were begun by 0 connell assembly of charleston Charlesto vm n longshoremen it appointed a corn com cittee to confer with similar commit tees from the other longshoremen s organizations regarding the request to be made next month for or september 1 it Is said that the suggestion is to ask for an increase in the hourly rates for gener general alday day work cleveland O 0 to care for Nor kmell who may be injured at the plants of the american steel and wire corn com pany and the central furnace corn com pany a thoroughly modern emergence emer genc hospital is being erected and equi equipped I 1 on the company comp anys s 3 on jonea street newburg A new nev 10 build ing is nearing completion fully 10 will be expended by the corpora tion in installing modern surgical and medical apparatus boston upholsterers upholsterer union no 53 will present a wage increase request to the boston employers it will ask that it take effect september 1 london eng it is reported from manchester that the ballot of mem bers of the master cotton spinners association has resulted in a majority of 92 per cent in favor of enforcing the proposed 5 per cent reduction in wages by a stoppage of the mills it if the operatives refuse to accept such reduction orange N J A union of washer women has been formed here with a membership of three hundred the officers announce that the standard of wages will be raised from 1 25 to 2 a day and the hours of labor reduced from nine to eight |
