| Show NEWS 0 UNION LABOR LAB WORLD 0 indianapolis local unions of the international typographical union t throughout the country are requested in the current issue of the typographic cal journal to petition congress to pass a law providing tor for the retire ment of government employed emp loyes on pen alons this Is in accordance with a resolution adopted at the last conven tion of the international the resola tion set bet forth that the international indorsed the retirement of govern dent ment employed emp loyes on pensions and in strutted ted its president to appear before committees committe ep of congress that have bills under consideration looking to that end and use his best efforts to effect their passage it further pro vided that this body requests local i unions to petition congress to pass such law that our delegates to the american federation of labor be in strutted ted to ask favorable action by that body upon the retirement meas ure and ask the american federation of labor and its allied bodies to pett tion congress tor for Us its passage and ask the president and executive committee of the federation to appear in person before the congress and urge its pas sage new tork york 0 G moran chairman of the board of governors of the build ing association announced that the nineteen weeks strike of the marble workers of this city was declared off and the eight hundred strikers will re turn to work unconditionally as judi visuals the strike was for an in crease in wages of fifty cents a day i the strikers violated a trade agree ment by striking vienna austria vienna telephone and telegraph workers have corn com I 1 fenced a very necessary wage mave move ment it if 3 75 a week Is regarded a i high wage among these state em eloyes they demand a substantial increase settlement of various ques eions as to their legal position and that after seven years service a man should be regarded as permanently engaged darolt mich the platform of the i detroit federation of labor as idoft f ed by all affiliated unions by a refer jv eidum vote declares declare tor for municipal jiji ownership of all public utilities and the federation has reaffirmed its for i mer action in this regard and will op pose the granting ot of a franchise to the detroit street railway or any other othet private con oration seattle wash the washington fc state sugar comp company anys a factory at wa J verly in spokane county never will t be reopened the plant is said to rep resent an investment of the reason given for its abandonment is the smallness of the crop of sugar beets in the inland empire and the difficulty of inducing farmers to grow them london end british postal work ers have been for some time now amov ing strongly in favor of better con dillons mass meetings are taking place from week to week all over the country and the seven or eight unions comprised in the postal workers fed aeration are united in support of their common demands Hall hallville ville conn hall brothers woolen mills and all small mills in this section of the state are rushing their machinery in its utmost on fancy suit ings there Is not an idle woolen weaver or spinner in the state sev eral mills want to run day and night but cannot procure help new york A bill passed by the new york legislature amending the la bor law went into effect recently it Is designed to provide better sanitary conditions in bakeries it classes bakeries as factories and puts them under the jurisdiction of the state la tor bor commission oakland cal the carmen s unions of oakland and richmond as a result of recent referendum vote have decided ro 6 consolidate under one charter this will it is said give the union the largest membership of any organization of carmen in the united states morganton Mor Morg ganton antoan W na a five of the hot mills at the sabraton Sa braton plant of the american sheet tin plate company resumed operations after an idleness of several weeks the other five mills will start at once employment is given to persons leicester eng the unemployed in this vicinity being dissatisfy dissatisfied led with he operations of the local labor exchange have returned their registration cards and decided to form an unemployed labor association boklo japan tomo municipality has decided to open labor exchanges throughout tl e city where employers can find help when needed harrisville R I 1 the united states worsted company will abandon its mills here and remove the business to lawrence mass the company gives employment to about operatives new york six thousand operators tower men and agents agent on the new york central lines obtained an in crease of from 10 to 15 per cent in their wages london england england 8 na dional union of boot and shoe opera tives having adopted a label to be placed upon the product of its ts mem bers has instituted an active label campaign mpa ign j y lu chicago coal operators from all the bituminous fields in the united states excepting those of pennsyl vania and ohio met here and organic ed the american federation of coal operators the mission of which will be to arrange a wage scale that will be acted upon before april 1 1912 when the present scale expires we hope to arrange for a conference with operators from ohio and pennsylvania soon and eventually to have every coal field in the bituminous region represented said harry M taylor who was elected president new york officials of the united states steel corporation said that the company s mills as a whole are work ing nearer to capacity than at any previous time this agar year the company comp anys a foreign business it was added has grown beyond all expectations in proof of the growth of this count country rys s exports of iron and steel it was point ed out that total exports for october aggregated 20 as against 17 in the corresponding month of last year baltimore the final session wag was held here of the annual convention of the international seamen s union the f follow ing officers were re elected andrew furuseth president patrick flinn V A olander thomas conway henry P griffin P 13 cill J N hy len T A hansen and christop Chrls top john son vice presidents william N fra zer secretary treasurer seattle was chosen as the place for the conven tion next december indianapolis the bricklayers ma sons and plasters international has a mortuary fund which was established in july of last year since the estaba lish ment of this fund up to november 30 of this year there was paid out of it to the families of dead members representing 1077 deaths this was an average payment tor for each death of washington the eight hour day for laborers and mechanics on contract work done by private firms by the terms of a bill passed by the house the measure was introduced by representative senta tive hughes new jersey rep berger ak wisconsin Iscon sin the so member of the house expressed the belief that the bill would not hold water london eng every year there are in england three important labor con mentions vent ions there are the annual brit ish trade union convention the an nual meeting of the general federa tion of trade unions and the annual convention of the labor party the last named la Is to be held in binning ham in january st louis mo alonzo L st clair secretary treasurer of the teamsters and chauffeurs union fred leine mann and meyer members of the union were arrested on charges of maliciously hacking to death four mules belonging to an express corn com pany against which a strike was in progress london eng the labor association now embraces ill societies in great britain the cap capi tal of these workmen s societies is ap proximately 10 and their trade amounts to nearly 22 a year the last return shows that was divided among the work ers as their share of the profits madrid thirty five thousand work men upon the Andal railways plan to declare a strike unless their grievances are met at once the strike will come at an inopportune time I 1 in n view of the aviation meets to be held at malaga tangier and ceuta ceata mexico city CRY wages for unskilled labor in mexico which ten years ago were about 25 cents a day and have since slowly risen by a few a ants have now been raised to 60 50 and 60 minitia cents cent this applies particularly to mining and railway work san francisco the proposed con amendment permitting members officers and employed emp loyes of the california railroad commission and peace officers to accept tree free passes from railroads was beaten by a majority mar of 6 votes pittsburg pa an arrangement has been made between the central mold ers union of scotland and the inter national molders union of north america by which the two organ la eions will in future exchange member ship cards rivers manitoba arthur ell aford and john gibbens striking machin ests were mere shot and seriously wounded in the arm during a fight between strikers of the grand trunk pacific railroad and alfred thomas a strikebreaker Wilkes barre pa af at a meeting of employed emp loyes of the local street rail way company it was decided to accept the new wage scale the men who now get 22 13 1 3 cents an hour will be paid 23 cents lymanville Ly manville P I 1 the mills here and those at manton greenville and pascoag pascoal employing in all nearly a thousand hands are all running on an extra time schedule winnipeg manitoba independent coal mine operators of alberta and eastern british columbia voluntarily increased the wages of their workmen P I 1 der cent AA 1 aas ibba |
