Show for union workers important happenings in pit industrial circles in this J T 1 country and europe 0 0 am ma W oraa Z indianapolis hid ind the united mine workers of america will attempt to raise as a permanent relief fund for the widows and orphans of the victims of the cherry mine disaster according to the announce ment of national president thomas T L T lewis e wis president lewis estimates that 1000 1 children have been made I 1 emeless by the explosion while the red cross society Is attending to immediate needs of the destitute fam lies at cherry clr mr lewis believes a fund should be raised for the care of the children in the future mr lewis says that a formal call will be sent to the 2 local organizations of miners asking tor for contributions he asks that all contributions be sent to the na dional headquarters in this city and distributed by a special committee that will be provided for either by the national executive board or by the convention it Is the plan mr lewis says to have the fund held in trust by the committee for the benefit of the widows and orphans of the cherry disaster sydney N S W trade at new castle Is at a standstill owing to the great coal strike A hundred dally daily col trains have been discontinued the miners employed in the mount pleasant and Col edile collieries eries in the so athern district have gone on strike and all other southern mines are ex pecked to join them the western men too will probably join the move ment it if they are pressed to do so but only as a matter of principle the pame is the case with the bricklayers and dra drai mens unions the chinese engaged in the industry have cabled the news of the strike to the chinese coal fields the northern proprietors hold 20 in wages due to the strikers but the immediate payment of the amount is doubtful milwaukee H F hockin a mem ber of the executive board of the tural iron workers was in the city recently in the interest of the pile drivers at no time has the de mand for men been as great as at present said mr hockin in cm cinnoti for instance our organization is compelled to place ordinary labor ers on structural iron work in order to complete it this fall during the last month we have mitia initiated ted men the largest for any one month during the last five years and equal to the record of last year indications are that work will remain this way for the next three years ottawa canada A bill has been introduced in the canadian parliament providing tor for an eight hour work day and ilso also calling for a minimum rate of 25 cents an hour the act does not apply to domestic or farm laborers or when persons employed are members of the employer employers s family A provision annuls any agreement for a lower rate between the employed and em the act is attracting unusual attention loi ghost the dominion london eng the board of trade report on the hours and wages in the clothing trades of the united king ring dom s that the total number of of work people employed in this section is about 1500 1 being men about half of them are employed in factories and workshops the rest ap parent ly being engaged in doing their work at their homes london eng A dispute in one sec see tion of the printing trade in the manchester district over wages and hours of labor was settled by the manchester typographical society and kindred societies guaranteeing the good faith of the printers assistants in beims approved by the employers the strikers are to be reappointed milwaukee structural iron work ers union has decided to institute an apprentice system beginning on jan uary nary I 1 the union will allow one ap prentice to every beven seven men at erect ing and one apprentice to every four men at ornamental finishing work new york international black smiths union is endeavoring to de vise means to raise a fund to be used in an endeavor to obtain the eight hour day for blacksmiths in all parts of the country boston since the organization of the cloak and skirt makers union no 56 17 months ago more than members have been enrolled about half of the total number of the craft in the city boston this city has another new teamsters union it will include the men of one special line of work san francisco T A new union corn com posed of chauffeurs and helpers was organized recently aberdeen S D A new bric brickley klay ers union has been organized here lead S D it was officially an bounced at the Home take mining company s offices here that the mine would be closed at once in anti antidia cipa tion of a strike of 2 miners em aloyed there the miners demand a closed shop working agreement and the officials will not grant it the con trolling interest in the mine it is said Is held by mrs phoebe hearst moth er of william R hearst vienna austria the total in tome of 0 the austrian woodworkers union rose from 10 in 1902 to in 1908 the expenditures from 7 in 1902 to in 1908 harrisburg pa james E roder ick chief of m nes issued a letter to superintendents of all the coal corn com banies in the state inclosing copies ot of the new minor labor acts and re questing their operation cooperation co with the state authorities in seeing that the laws are enforced the superintend ente are informed that all should be secured by minors on or before january 1 1910 and that in spec specters tors will ash ask to see them after that date chief roderick declared that he was pleased at the desiena t on of the age limit of boys employed inside mines at 16 years and of those employed outside at 14 years he had contended for such a law for years and said that he will enforce it strictly in both the anthracite and bituminous regions london eng the army of hunein aloyed in great britain has grown steadily and has now novi reached eions that are causing the govern ment great uneasiness A special statement just issued by the royal commission on the poor law and relief of ai distress declares that during the fiscal year ending march 31 last the number of those who were without work and who ho sought government aid was 31 persons in every 1 1000 of the population while in the fiscal year pre cedil g only 14 out of each 1000 1 made application for assistance the destitution and absence of work foi for the unemployed is not confined to london but is general in practically all of the manufacturing cities and to tow ns in the united K egdom washington agricultural male la bor in russia is divided into two classes mounted labor and labor on foot only the latter being represent ed by the following figures bowing the average dally daily wage paid through out russia during the different sea sons in 1908 springtime male la borer without food 34 cents with food 26 cents woman laborer with out food 21 cents with food 15 caits ts hay cutting time male la borer without food 41 cents with food 33 cents woman laborer with ait oit it food 31 cents with food 26 cents harvest time male laborer without food 41 cents with food 33 30 cents woman laborer without food 28 cents with food 23 cents new ew I 1 lierk ork on january I 1 the em aloyes of the boston albany are to be granted a pension system the pensions are to be pa d to the men who have been in the employ oi of the company for a period of ten or more years when they reach the age of 70 and may bp paid to men who have been continually in the employ of the company for a period of 20 years even if they have not reached the age of 70 the pensions are computed on a basis of one per cent of the average pay for the last ten years ot of service multiplied by the number of years a man has hag been in continuous service new york Dulle bulletins tins in more than a half dozen languages were posted about new clinton hall announcing that some forty five firms had granted the demands of the striking shirt waist makers fully 3 young women returned to work as victors the large firms have lost at least in business since the started every firm which gave in to the strikers granted the girls the 52 hour working week and a 15 per cent wage advance for all grades of work ers on week work and a 20 per cent advance for piece work lynn mass the strike of the goodyear operatives at the shoe fac tory of the A E little company was settled settled and as a result shoe work ers returned to work after four weeks of idleness when the goodyear op era tives struck on the ground that one of their number was connected with a union to which they v ere op posed the closing of their department threw out of work all other employed emp loyes of the factory halifax N S james B lan ian secretary treasurer of the nova scotia branch of the united mine workers of america has brought charges of conspiracy to restrict the supply of coal ao 10 nova scotia and thereby to raise prices unreasonably against alexander dick sales agent ot of the dominion coal company and john R cowans manager of the spring hill coal mines philadelphia the pennsylvania railroad will add 10 freight cars to its roll ng stock for the eastern lines 3 hopper gondola coal cara cars and steel flat cars were ordered from the pre ed steel car company and 1000 1 hopper gon dola coal cars from the standard steel car company london eng the working women of england are rapidly joining organ iced labor recruits being received into the unions every week the number enrolled at this time is nearly sacramento cal at the close oi of the third quarter of the current year the carpenters union had mem bers in good standing and 10 to its credit amsterdam holland the holland trade unions are organizing those workers whose occupation and num bers offer a field for un on action the unions have already done nitch in the cities of holland to ra 0 wag |