Show F E for union workers important happenings in industrial circles in this low aft ma country and europe boston boston holders molders and core makers unions began taking its from members employed at plants where women are also employed as core makers the statements made in some of the affidavits which have already been received of the actual conditions at the plants are quite serious the unions in a letter to the other organizations of the state declare that the employment ol 01 women as corema core makers kera has been before the legislature the bosses have used every effort to make the conditions of such work by women appear as a paradise and have gone to the ex tent of practically shutting down actual working conditions when via igors or investigators have been at the plants to make the work appear 0 K to the visitors chicago any business that can not exist except by the labor of un derwald employed emp loyes says rev R A white ought not to tight fight its discon ill nuance between a living wage and an insufficient wage some one has to pay the difference the employed emp loyes pay it in ruined bodies sometimes tn in ruined souls and society makes up the balance in jalla jails hospitals and tu bercu losis sanatoriums A decent cit izen ought not to be willing to get rich at the expense of the bodies and souls of defenseless A girls minneapolis the labor organizations of this city are preparing a gen era eral campaign ot of organization and education denominating it the tor for ward movement halls in various sec see eions of the city have been obtained and prominent trade union speakers have been engaged to deliver ad dresses the movement opens on april 21 and will continue tor for two weeks and then move on to st paul where the campaign will also be car ried fled on tor for two weeks washington figures presented to a committee of congress by an expert accountant who had access to the books of the united states steel cor po horation por atlon ration indicate that mr air morgan got tor for organizing that huge combine no wonder some ol 01 the em am aloyes of that concern have been re quiren to work twelve hours kours a day even seven days a week to provide alvi lends new york the annual convention of the order of railroad station agents held here decided to present on april I 1 a request for a fifteen per cent wage increase to the various eastern roads earl H morton ot of greenwood Is the grand president of the order and there are several other new england agents on its grand ex board I 1 cleveland ohio the supreme court of ohio held valid the green law providing a nine hour workday for women no woman will be per bitted to work in any workshop tac fac tory restaurant resta irant telegraph or tele phone otee or millinery or dressea king establishment more than 54 hours each week sydney N S 8 W unhallowed iron that Is ironwork manufactured by non union labor having been found to have been used in the build ing of the labor temple here the trades hall committee decided to remove all such black stuff from the building the objectionable material will therefore be torn out chicago bricklayers and stone ma ors international union has de aided to again place before the mem main for a vote the proposition of with the american federa lion ion of labor labor treasurer pat pek ck murphy s report shows the strong lox ox of the organization organisation contains more than san francisco cal the culinary workers of san francisco have organ iced an eight hour ilour day league the aims alms and objects of which are to se cure an eight hour day for all local restaurant ind and hotel employed emp loyes san francisco cal culinary work ers era have organized an eight hour daa da leafae the alms and objects of which are to obtain an eight hour day for tor all restaurant and hotel employed emp loyes hashii agton in twenty six states laws to limit the hours of women a work aro in force and in kentucky rhode island and new york similar bills are to be introduced hancok mich all of the miners employed at the mohawk mine refused to go underground saying it was un air fair to charge them for broken drills ind and drill steel bakersfield cal the carpenters organization hos hs collected nearly 28 which Is to be used for the erection of a three story labor temple san francisco the milk drivers union demands a straight workday instead of one of broken hours new york on behalf of the lead ing central aabol bodies of new york city and part of the state of new jer spy it Is announced that a new fiew cen atal body to be known as the bed aerated central body to have its head quarters in new now york city has been formed it will represent binately four hundred thousand work ers era new V NA est es minster canada labor unionists hive decided to erect a tern tem pie as their own on permanent home eureka cal A number of clergy men nen have been seated as fraternal dele delegates in the central labor body pawtucket it I 1 declaring that tha t pay ranging from fourteen can cents t a t to 0 twenty cents Is not a fair wage for or a week weeks s work the thirtyfour thirty tour four young girls who went on strike at the mill of the regina lace company here recently had writs served on the ofil bials of 0 the company for their appearance in court to show why wages ot of 1 a day should not be paid the girls ages average sixteen years they say that their pay envelopes contained from fourteen to twenty cents each two or three who had taken work home where they were assisted by their families received a little more than 1 the strikers allege that girls who received only twenty cents tor for a weeks week a work had labored dally daily from seven clock in the morning until sla six 0 clock at night boston the or more engineers firemen and gas makers em am aloyed at the several plants of the boston consolidated gas company have been promised the eight hour workday on july 1 by the officials of that company it was reported at a meeting of the executive board ot of ats stationary Fir firemen emens s union no 3 the arrangement was accepted the union had previously authorized a strike ot of its members at the plants to secure the shorter workday which Is now in effect at practically every in boston it Is said sald by union ceals new york it Is etI estimated mated that the average wages ot of hatters employed in new york including all the skilled and unskilled workers Is somewhat above 26 a week computations says the new york times have shown that able workmen under the piece sa system stem earn as much as 40 and 50 a week while in some factories experienced women who sew in bands etc earn 20 per week so that a 5 hat represents a payment of about 2 to labor spent in preparing it tor for the counter baltimore md mol the suit of benjamin mazer and others against the Cloak makers union no 4 to obtain an injunction to prevent an alleged boycott was decided in favor of the union former mayor thomas G hayes who was employed recently by the union filed a motion to dismiss tl ti a e suit as the union is an corp orated volunteer association and such associations may only be sued by making its individual members parties to the litigation san francisco the california metal trades association of this city asserting that it cannot compete with outside firms whose employed emp loyes work nine ulna or more hours per day Is aavo i eating a nine hour day the iron trades council steadfastly refuses to relinquish the e eight ight hour day ay and will consider no proposition that does not provide for this concession new york andrew Furuie th pres ident of the international seamen s union of america is opposed to the formation of a transportation depart ment of american federation of la bor upon the ground that such a body would be composed largely of lind land workers who are unfamiliar with the needs of the seamen holyoke mass girls employed in the winding department of the ameri can thread company left their work rork on refusal of their demand that pay be kept at the same point as it was before the 64 54 hour law went into et ef feet their pay was also cut two years ago when the 56 hour law went into effect london jondon england the british ship building industry which was adversely affected by the boilermakers boller makers dia dis in the latter portion of 1910 showed a marked recovery early in 1911 and employment was very good throughout the lear sacramento cal organized labor of california will shortly acquaint the v on en voters v with ith labor a needs with nith a view to enlisting their support in the interests of humane legislation duluth minn it is reported on reliable authority that the lake car ners association has under contain a scheme to educate seamen tor for the creat lakes brussels belgium A general strike of miners Is threatened awen tyghe ty fit e thousand in the borinaga Borl Bor nage inage dis brict are out and the movement Is rapidly spreading boston mass in massachusetts a minimum wage law has been becom mended by a state commission created to investigate it london england fourteen large british shoe shoo factories are now dow using the union stamp peekskill Peek skill N 11 retail clerks have obtained a reduction in hours washington ashington A in germany when the miners go to work they take off their th air clean clothes at the mine mines s mouth and then bathe and change on leay leav ing work shower baths and lockers by the hundred are in the coal coun try of germany and miners are never seen abroad in working clothes berlin germany in the building trades of germany weekly hours are as an follows allows in the we principal cities dresden 54 5 munich and several oth er cities 60 berlin leipzig 53 63 bremen 64 54 cologne dusseldorf Dussel dort elberfeld and barmen 56 elsewhere RI d fa d I 1 I 1 AA |