Show world or of lab labor ODA I 1 news e W from 0 all parts of the world n of general eal interest to the worker indianapolis an effort to bring bout the removal of the national headquarters of the journeymen till tall ors drs union of america to indianapolis from bloomington III Is now being made this plan which la Is being act ively boosted by the members of local no of this city Is favored also by other cit es william A landgraf business agent of the indianapolis local already has received many as su entrances rances of support the question will be submitted to the union tailors of the country for a referendum vote which will be taken late in the sum slim mer or early in the fall in the mean time indianapolis union men wage a vigorous campaign in behalf af thie this city several years ago in diana polls tried to take the tailors national headquarters from blooming ton in the effort it received con sid erable support but john B lennon now treasurer of the american fed aeration of labor was then general secretary of the tailors and succeed ed in heading off the indianapolis move lennon s home Is at bloom ington since E J brals brats of cleve land 0 has become secretary the indianapolis tailors see a good chance to reopen the fight in the event the sentiment in favor of removing the headquarters from bloomington be comes strong it Is said detroit may enter the field against indianapolis ig as a contender for the national offices of the union tailors new york that theodore N vail president of the western union telegraph company intends to give into the very demands made by the telegraphers grap hers when they went on strike and fled up the telegraph business four years ago became known when notices were posted in the main offices of the company announcing that type writers would be furnished to all of 01 the telegraphers it Is also said that an eight hour day tor for the three shifts which make up the 24 hours is also be lug tug considered and will be put in oper aaion the women telegraphers it Is also understood will receive an in crease in salary reading rooms tor for the operators have been fitted up in the offices of the western union new york members of eleven protestant churches in this city have united in a committee to promote ar bit titration ration in labor disputes roman catholic leaders and representatives of the jewish synagogues have also offered to operate cooperate A statement of the purpose of the new committee says the church should take an active stand in labor disputes there Is need tor for an impartial body which will look into the situation when a strike is threatened and publish to the horld the merits of both sides of the controversy we shall not always be able to make both sides to the dis agree to arbitration but we shall always try linton ind the rolling mill will resume work just as soon as repairs are completed the mill has been closed three years and local capital ests lost in the thea 1 enterprise the citizens have subscribed 10 and the united states steel corpora tion will take charge immediately the mill will run day and night and em ern ploy men at each shift the plant has a capacity of one hundred tons of steel rails a day and has enough or ders to continue running it at full time boston A fine of was imposed upon john R oldham of lynn gen eral organizer of the united shoe workers of america by judge pierce in the superior court following the finding that oldham was guilty of con tempt in attempting to induce men to leave the employment of the r brig ham co shoe manufacturers of marlboro where a strike is in ress london eng the trade union re turns tor for london showed that 32 3 2 per cent of carpenters and joiners were unemployed at the end of march as compared with 7 1 per cent a year ago the corresponding percentages for plumbers were 13 4 11 8 and 12 3 respectively with masons and plas terera in london employment waa was again reported as fair on the whole chicago strikes of maintenance of way employees against three terminal railroads were called off between and men returned to work on the lines of the illinois central the baltimore and ohio terminal and the western indiana london eng in 14 australia even the bushmen and other men who do odd joba jobs have a union of sixty thousand members and a large surplus ot of money and own an evening per of their own salt lake city utah after being on strike for nearly two years the union plumbers of salt lake returned to work their wage agreement hav hal ing been settled so they will get 6 50 a day 40 cents less than they asked and 40 cents gents more than the employers wanted to pay chicago A system of or more retail grocery and meat stores which will run under one management and which it is promised will reduce the cost of living to chicagoans lo 10 per cent will be started within a few months by a big corporation now be ing formed washington the following figures showing the working of the german workmen a insurance law in 1909 are of interest of a total population ot of 63 people 9 males and 3 females were insured against the consequences of illness they were insured in 23 insurance of flees in all parts of the empire against accident were insured 14 males and 8 females against complete invalidity or anabil ity to work ork were insured 10 males and 4 females there were 5 cases of illness dealt with 1 cases of accident and fresh pensions for invalidity in addition to the existing pen old age pensions numbered in all the income from lasur ance was marks four marks equal roughly 1 of which marks were contributed by the employers and by the workmen the imperial con tribu tion was 51 marks the total expenditure was marks indianapolis only fourteen mem bers hers of the international brotherhood of teamsters chauffeurs stablemen and helpers out of a total member ship ot of 47 are on strike the fourteen are at logan cal and have been out a little more than three months in new york city there are fourteen thousand members every one of whom is now at peace with his employer since the beginning ot of this year more than three hundred trade movements among teamsters have been indorsed by the Intern atlon al executive board ot of the union in cases agreements already have been signed and it is the expectation of the international officers in this city that the other requests will be granted london eng work Is pouring in lit on the english shipbuilders and steel workers so fast that it will take some bethera of them years to complete the orders that already have been given this follows a considerable depression but the prospects now are exceedingly bright said J E hutton manager ot of the wolseley tool and motor car company one of the departments of vickers sons maxim who have many big steel plants in england our firm which does all sorts of steel work from the building of bat tie tle ships to tools has now on hand in orders which it will take three years to complete mc most s t of them are tor for battleships f tor or tor for eign countries washington probably because ot of the increase in the insurgents in the unions all over the country president gompers has notified both factions ot of the electrical workers union that the executive council of the american federation of labor has called a joint convention of the warring elements to be held september 14 at minneah oils minn the council further or ders that the conventions must each elect a committee of five to meet jointly with the officers of the A ft F ot of L the metal trades department and the building arales department the combined forces are to work out a plan of amalgamations and submit same to the conventions tor for adoption kansas city mo the annual con bention of the bakers international will be held in kansas city this year and the executive board will present to the convention a plan tor for the es of 0 operative cooperative bakeries in all cities where the union has not been able to gain a foothold the plan provides tor for the investment ot of international funds in these bake shops and they will be turned into trade schools for the benefit of members harrisburg pa the wages ot of the trainmen in the united states and canada have been increased 37 in a year according to the report made to the international convention of the brotherhood ot of railroad train men by W G 0 lee president this la is the first statement to be made of the great wage increasing movement in 1910 and covered every section of the country washington in switzerland the hours of men are axe restricted to sixty four weekly in austria to sixty six in russia to sixty seven and a halt half by day and sixty by night and in france to seventy two though to sixty where they work in the same building with women and young persons short er hours both tor for men and women apply to special industries in some countries portland ore the portland organ ot of structural iron workers h has as levied an assessment of 5 a member toward the fund tor for maras de tense london england the international marine strike which will affect the world 9 ports will it Is said take place soon A strike fund of tor for the british end has been raised seamen of all countries will join the strike including chinese who haie hae a separate union at hong kong vallejo cal members of the car penters and joiners union ot of thi this ity state that there is a movement ob u toot foot at napa to organize the carpen the state secretary has been requested to send an organize organizer r to napa at once and get started in 1 actual tu a work |