Show r A world ox abor news from all parts of the world of beneral interest to the worker pittsburg pa at a conference of strikers here it was decided to refer the plan of calling off the 13 months fight against some of the american sheet and tin plate comp company anys s mills back to the various unions affected A vote on the question was ordered by next sunday the committee which had been instructed to meet the ope to learn the present status of the men in the eyes of the company reported that the men would be wel corned coined wherever vacancies existed newcastle pa which with martins ferry perry 0 has the majority of men already has voted to end the contest the strike which started july 1 1909 when the company insisted on a reduction of wages of ten per cent and individual contracts affected many thousands of men in ohio pennsylvania indiana and west vir ginia new york the international sea men s union announced the comple tion of preparations for a great inter national marine strike which may par aleze the world worlds s commerce plans to this end have been under cons d aeration for months the first move is ls to be made by the british seamen union and the object of its attack N 1 the shipping federation the official announcement says the main Is sue is the abolition of the shipping federation federations s system of espionage and branding known as the welfare plan and the recognition of the seamen s right through their organization to a say in the terms of employ ment kansas city mo unable to come to terms with the southwestern coal operators with whom he had been conferring in the hope of ending the four months strike of coal miners of the southwest for increased wages president T L lewis of the united mine workers of america has left there tor for indianapolis the miners now will draw up a form of contract outlining the terms they will accept tor for private settlements with individual operators columbus 0 O efforts of gov har mon men to bring about a settlement of the columbus street car strike proved un availing when the governor told the unionists that the company was will ing to settle if the question of rec ignition tion and aud the wearing of un on buttons was wailed the union off ceals said they had rejected such a proposal before going out on strike and would continue to reject it new york the officers of the vest makers union reported that 2 women members of the union have gone on strike tor for a ten per cent in crease in wages two thousand men who are members of the union struck for the same demand last week four mass meetings of coat tailors were held to urbanize nize in pre on for a demand for a shorter work day chicago according to a statement furnished by E M craig secretary of the building contractors council workmen in the chicago building in austry have been granted increases in wages in the past eight years rang ing from 1212 12 to 50 per cent the painters received the highest advance and the bricklayers and stonemasons ahn th lowest chicago the chicago federation of musicians voted not to accept the wage increase e of 20 per cent offered by the theater managers the scale committee was intruded instructed to visit the managers again and insist on the full demands of 30 per cent advance with a provision for the employment of a minimum number in each or chestra boston arthur M huddell of bos ton hoisting and portable engineers union no 4 has been indorsed by all the unions of massachusetts as a can didace for internal lonal president mr huddell has been an international vice president for several year washington throughout the cities of asia minor are low car penters get from 32 to ag G cents a day bricklayers 40 to 48 C ants ants and corn com mon laborers from 4 to 12 cents doc tors charge 40 cents a visit and dent ests 20 cents for pulling a too h baltimore md it is announced by the baltimore and ohio Rall railroad roal corn com pany that an order for 1000 add lional all steel gondola cars has been placed with the standard steel car company deliveries will be mad mady some time in the fall los angeles cal the trade union ests are contemplating establishing somewhere this city a tent city to be conducted upon the operative cooperative plan every member to pledge himself to buy all necessaries there to the excle slon sion of los angeles springfield ill state president john H walker of the illinois mine workers announced that he would be a candidate tor for the national dency against president lewis because of the latter a indorsement endorsement Indor of the proposed compromise agreement of the illinois strike newcastle eng the strike of 62 employees of the n railroad has been settled the men accepted the terms offered by the corn com pany and returned to work baltimore md the maryland peni pent tent lary Is paying the convicts only 16 26 cents a day tor for making shirts achim kw P princeton ind the southern rail way ray shops in this city which have re bently been working full time under an increased wage seale last pay day showing the largest pay roll here in three years will until further notice work only eight hours a day and five days in the week no cause for the cut Is assigned but it Is supposed the directing officials at the head offices in Iv washington have decided the road has been overstepping its tion and propose to hold the local work down for a while A number of the employees have quit contend ing they cannot make ends meet on 40 hours a week fall river mass thirty cotton mills here owned orned by 12 corporations and employing 8 operatives were shut down from july 30 until august 8 for the purpose of curtailing prodoc tion the shut down Is quite general throughout massachusetts rhode Is land and maine the drastic curtail ment which is in progress pro greas in fix the american textile industry is having a beneficial effect on the goods market and an improvement is hoped for when the new cotton crop is avail able the I 1 olley of curtailing the output is expected to continue until tall fall san francisco the labor council has decided to accept the plan of arbi advocated by the common wealth club the callb will appoint twenty four business men and the council will appoint a like number as a board of arbit arbitration rati C n when dis arise the parties interested maa each pick a member of this committee and these two will choose a third these three will hear the matter complained of and the findings must be accepted by each side else the board will not sit indianapolis the annual report of the commission on supplemental trade education of the international typographical union shows that there Is an enrollment of 1567 1 students in the I 1 T U technical course in printing A year ago the commission reported enrolled as students as the result of fifteen months work the report re fers to the wide interest that has been aroused by the course not only among members of the printers craft but also among educators and publishers washington representative A L bates of pennsylvania member of 0 the house committee on naval affairs headed a committee representing the mechanics employed at the washing ton navy yard in a visit to acting sec see detary winthrop at the navy depart ment the committee included J W mcconnel H T leclair and thomas E carroll mr bates was the spokes man of the delegation and he made a strong appeal for an indrea e in the wages paid at the local yard boston the machinists lodges lodge of boston report that the prospects tor for winning a complete victory in the boston strike are most excellent lodge last week charged that a local firm building a boat tor for the city of boston is violating the law and its contract by employing non citizen strikebreakers strike breakers in excess of eight hours a day it called upon the city to investigate the charges chares and take action lafayette ind announcement wai wa made at the general offices of the mo me non railroad that the request of the engineers for an increase in waged had been granted the new sched 1 became effective on july I 1 the management dating it back one month casenger Pa engineers now receive 3 af tor for miles instead of 3 50 freight engines eng iners get 4 50 to 4 75 norfolk va because of a tailing off in the carnin q of the seaboard air line the hours of the ry department throughout the entire system have been curtailed from nine hours a day to eight hours with the usual halt half hoi hol day saturdays unless conditions improve it is stated there may have to le te reduction in mechanics hancock mich the strike of the portland copper mine baraga coun ty has been rendered futile by the im por port atlon tation of strike breakers all strikers were put off the company q property by the sheriff and deputies there Is no union here the object ot of the strike was to se cure higher wages and shorter work rork ing hours new york the latest semiannual report of the international As association of machinists shows the receipts from all sources tor for six moi mot to be 02 and the expend turps tures 42 12 the organization has 94 58 70 71 invested in government and oth er bonds ottawa canada canadian union this year are going to make special efforts to turn their labor day demon st rations into label parades it I 1 claimed that it will be the biggest campaign of publicity for union label ed pio products ducts ever undertaken pittsburg pa A declaration against its members becoming en listed men in the national guard ra a made by the national brotherhood of operative potters of the united states and canada at its recent convention wahington wa hington railroad telegrapher have received wage mage advances sine since january I 1 aagre aggregating biting 1 C |