Show r world OT of abo labor S news ew from ra all parts of the world 0 rd of general interest to the worker W indianapolis members of the unit ed brotherhood of carpenters kp joiners will have a referendum vote on the question of employing mem bers hers of the general executive board all the time in union work instead of during the quarterly meetings as at present the vote Is returnable fob feb 6 A similar proposal was made by the des moines convention in 1910 but was defeated at referendum the convention proposal was as that when not riot attending board meetings the members of the board should act as general organizers and receive the pay of organizers the present pro dosal Is that in the interim between A board meetings members of the board shall be on the road settling dis and when not engaged in this work shall be under direct orders of the general president W D huber president of the union in a statement to the membership has estimated that the additional expense of having board members act as general or would be 22 a year fall river mass the cotton goods mills here will lose considerably in production under the 54 hour law and the operatives will lose in wages the reduction in output figures 3 57 per cent and the sum lost to the opera tives in wages will amount to nearly weekly the loss will fall fail automatically upon the piece workers among whom are speeder tenders mule spinners spooler tenders and weavers time workers in all the mills are now paid by the hour in stead of by the day as formerly their 4 weekly wages will be cut down in amounts equivalent to two hours work indianapolis the re ferend im vote of the machinists which closes janu ary 31 comes up in the form of an appeal seeking to set aside the action of a convention the appeal was pro mul gated by columbia lodge no of washington and indorsed by the required number of lodges the re turns from the thi recent referendum vote at which machinists were asked lo 10 designate their choice between in diana di anapolis polls and st louis as intern interns a lion tion headquarters have not been made public yet st louis A per capita assessment of five cents or a total of about 3 was voted by the st I 1 ouis trades and labor council as a fund to push the strike of about a dozen waitresses at a downtown department store the girls recently walked out when the management refused to compel all waitresses employed in the cafe to loin join the union at a recent meeting of the central body the store was placed on the unfair list and a boy cott was declared chicago Cigar makers Intern atlon al union issued eleven charters and surrendered fourteen last year had strikes and won twenty tour lour compromising three with twenty one pending eight being lost number of members involved 9 benefited S 3 not benefited 80 death bene fits paid 53 sick benefits traveling benefits 39 77 unemployed benefits 39 cost of strikes 70 sharon pa it was officially an bounced ced that the mercer works of the american sheet and tin plate corn com pany at south sharon would resume operations affecting about men the five sheet mills will be started and three turns will be worked man ager W C tamplin stated that the re pairs are progressing rapidly this mill has been idle for fifteen months pittsburgh with the beginning of 1912 fully idle workmen find employment in the iron and steel in destries dust dus rles tries of the country each plant in operation will largely increase its complement of workmen and scores of idle mills and furnaces will resume operations new lork the committee on amusement resources of working girls of new york city has been incorporate ed to investigate study and improve the general amusements of working girls and vocation conditions st louis austin W biggs state labor commissioner conferred with private labor agents of st louis and obtained their indorsement endorsement Indor of it a tint form torm contract they will adopt in deal ing with laborers london en eng g in england and wales the average weekly wage for or skilled carpenters masons plumbers painters pattern makers and printers does not exceed 9 a week san francisco ninety per cent of the retail shoe clerks of this city are organized omaha neb the steam engineers have secured several eight hour con tracts lorain ohio ohioan at the local plant of the national tube company announce ment was made that four out of the five skelp mills which have been closed down for several weeks will be ready for or business on monday and that the shape mill will if possible begin operation on wednesday the mills employ about 1000 1 men chicago the arbitration agree indents entered into by local unions of jae the bricklayers masons and plaster ers international union have proved ivery ery satisfactory according to the an dual report of william dobson secre ury tary treasure treasured of the union manchester eng the decision of the cotton spinners federation to place their operatives on half time went into effect at most of the spin ning mills in lancashire the num her of unemployed in the cotton trade has increased to comprising both spinners and weavers the oper atiles are determined to maintain their fight with the employers which began owing to their demand for the dismissal of non unionist workers from the helene mill at accrington the conflict will continue as long as the funds of the operatives trades union last and it is estimated that this will be about three or four weeks lowell mass A demand for an ad vance in wages of 10 per cent made by the loom fixers of the city created a situation which may involve the 20 cotton operatives here while the demand is made only by the loom fix ers in number it Is equivalent to asking for increase for 19 oper atiles since an increase cannot be given to them without applying it to all the help the mill agents have expressed a willingness to discuss the matter with a committee from the loom fixers union but it is said that the present condition of the cotton in austry would not warrant an increase york pa employed Emp loyes of the york railway company were given a pleas ant surprise when informed by the prel dent gordon campbell that their wages had been increased one cent per hour in the rate of pay the in create crea e however Is only for those who have served the company four years another feature however was as the ex tra employed emp loyes and employed emp loyes will hereafter receive a minimum of 20 for a half month when they have not enough work to make up that sum at the present rate of pay eddystone pa that there will be a boom not only in eddystone and owing to the establishment of the baldwin locomotive works at the former borough but also in all adjoining delaware county boroughs is indicated by the official statement emanating from the big company to the effect that it is to spend in doubling the size of its works with a corresponding increase in its output of locomotives and the number of its employed emp loyes philadelphia pa with the opening of the new year the wages of the motormen and conductors of philadel phlas street railway system were automatically increased one cent an hour in accordance with a plan adopt ed some time ago first year men will receive 22 centa cents an hour second year men 23 third year men 23 and fourth year men 24 these rates will be increased until all men in the ice of the company five years receive 25 cents an hour sedalla sedalia mo A number of missouri kansas texas car men who have been on strike since last september when the company refused to lecog nize members of the car men a union employed in the north and south die dis tracts ot of that line as one body returned to work it was stated that 15 of the strikers are back at work in the local shops one hundred and fifteen nonunion men are at work here atlanta ga As a result of the es of the 60 hour per week law recently enacted by the legisla ture about weavers loom fixers and other employed emp loyes went on strike at the exposition cotton mills here the men had previously been working 66 hours per week and objected to a cut in wages corresponding to the cut in hours it Is declared the mills will not be forced to close down by the strike london eng the strike of colliers employed in the mines at W ales which was proclaimed as a protest against the em of non nonunion union workers was the non unionists have gov en in and joined the union mckeesport McKee sport pa the W dewees wood plant resumed operations last week after an idleness lasting four years the mill is devoted to the manufacture of russian sheet iron westerly R I 1 the strike at the lorraine Lorr alne mills here Is practically at an end the strikers having gradually returned to work until the entire mill is now under full headway centreville Cen treville R I 1 all of the knight cotton mills here that have for five months been running short time or forty hours per week have started on a fiftysix fifty six hour per week schedule paris france about one hundred and nd twenty thousand women are em aloyed by the french government and the number Is growing con bantly scantly new york steps to form an interstate central labor union to be the largest in the world were taken recently by new york labor leaders the central union will cover new york and vicinity and new jersey as far as trenton delegates represent ing workers will meet soon cleveland ohio the f he overtime tern tem Is breeding insanity and crime and death it Is to eave save our women and our future generations that we are fighting in support of the ten hour law in the supreme court said harry D thomas secretary of the Cle cleveland leland federation of labor I 1 LM |