Show world or of labor news ew from 0 all parts of the world of ot general li interest to the worker washington A settlement ol 01 the protracted wage and working condi condl eions controversy between the south ear eastern tern railways and their employed emp loyes has been reached the rhe men by the agreement signed will receive an av advance in wages nages of 10 per cent the rules and working conditions on each of the roads remain substantially unchanged about 13 employed emp loyes of whom 3 are negroes are affected they in elude clude conductors brakemen baggage men flagman and yardmen track men and were not involved in the controversy the agreement means to the roads an increase in f fx x ed charges for operating expenses of approximately 1300 1 a year As an offset to this assurance Is given that there will be no strike of the men the roads involved in the con troverse tro versy were the atlantic coast line alabama great southern ala bama and vicksburg central of geor gla gia cincinnati new orleans and tex as pacific georgia southern and flori da mobile and ohio northern ISor thern ala bama new orleans and northeastern new orleans mobile and chicago seaboard air line southern railway southern railway in mississippi ten bessee central vicksburg shreveport and pacific and virginia and south n estern estem chester pa the loom fixers em aloyed by the aberfoyle Aber toyle foyle galey lord and the Ar asapha manufacture ing companies among the largest tex tile plants in the city were paid off in full and left the employ of the con cerns it was practically a lockout and involves about 40 loom fixers all of whom are union men they recent ly demanded an increase of 2 a week n their wages and threatened to walk ut it if it was not granted the man gement of the mills off offered ered to in rease the men a wages by giving a reini reinius um on all work in addition to heir regular rate of 18 per week which would make the average about 20 the crisis came when the men vere paid off and left with their tools he strike involves 1500 employed emp loyes ifould all the mills close new york the majority of plan 1 bakers in the city said a i tr ir are making more money today han they have hane made since A good workman makes from 25 to 30 a week these figures are wrong asserted president dold of the union the average pay of piano makers Is about 12 a week perhaps a few tore fore men receive the money mentioned but certainly it Is not what is paid to the average skilled workman the ers era demand both recognition of the union and a 15 per cent increase in w ages hazleton pa officials als of the firm of 0 pardee bros co operating the lattimer collieries issued an or der prohibiting miners from working done alone every miner must have a mate this has been done both for the pro edtion of the miners and the corn com pany recently a worker nho ho had a hamber alone was killed during the night at cranberry and no one knew ue was dead until his wife came to he mine 24 hours afterward alters ard and reported his disappearance chicago Pattern makers alpren tices cices w will ill affiliate with the senior pat ern makers union it has been agreed to have a graduated ecale scale of dues for the ap ea according to the bength of time they have served those who have served a year will pay ten cents a week two years twenty cents and three years thirty cents A system of local sick and death beni alts and tool insurance will be inaugurated atea augusta ga in response to a gen eral strike order conductors and trainmen of the georgia railroad went on a strike the strike order was issued by vice president T A gregg of the order of railway con doctors ani an I 1 vice president james murdock of the brotherhood of rail vay trainmen in charge of the local situation for their respective organ nations new york the new york state steel company announces that ar range ments have been made to start the steel plant of tho company abbott road and buffalo river in the next few weeks the plant has a capacity of df about 12 tons monthly which will mean employment for an adal lional men the blast furnace has been in operation pe ration since april south bethlehem pa the bethle liem iem steel company has announced an nerease in wages of one cent an hour 0 laborers the old rate was 13 12 1 2 ants an hour about three thousand nen are affected springfield ill the supreme court aenied a motion for a rehearing in the case of harry M kemp and others of chicago against division no amalgamated association of street and electric bilec railway employed Emp loyes of america in june the court ruled that employed emp loyes have a right to strike when the closed shop rule Is violated pittsburg according to the latest report compiled by the committee on welfare more than 24 employed emp loyes of the united states steel corporation are stockholders of the company their aggregate holdings amounting to more than shares chicago the report of beci Secie tary frank duffy to the convention of the united brotherhood of carpenters Is a revelation nearly all of the local unions have reported an increase in wages and shortening of hours when nhen ever this result has been attained trade movements of the carpenters erg have been general and in amplifying the report it Is found that in a large number of cities there has been an average increase in the daily wage taking into consideration the shorten ing of hours without reduction in pay of 38 4 cents on an approximated membership of this yields an advance in wages of 76 FOO 00 per day computed on working days in the year this increase yields 22 as a record for one year when it is taken into consideration that the total sum expended by the brother hood in the year under consideration was only 67 it is revealed that the united brotherhood of car penters Is paying a dividend to its members unparalleled by any cor borate body engaged in the mercantile or any other business in the entire world it Is an argument in favor of the organization of the workmen that cannot be controvert ed chicago thirty teamsters em aloyed by the chicago consolidated bottling company at north paulina and west kinzie streets quit work be cause the company had put into ice six large auto trucks each of which will do the work of two teams the strike caused alarm to concerns gho it the city this Is the first instance e of a strike of team because of the introduction of auto trucks that I 1 have heard of said an officer of a teaming concern concern the introduction of auto trucks Is simply a logical development in the trans por port atlon tation problem they will not throw nearly as many men out of their jobs as did automatic jachn mach n ef cry ir new york the new 54 hour week labor law which will affect nearly halt half a million girls women and boys in new york has gone into eff effect act the law which is an outgrowth of the agitation following the triangle shirtwaist factory fire affected all girls and women and boys under IS 18 years old it applies to factories a factory being defined as any mill workshop or other manufacturing or business establishment where one or more persons are employed at labor san francisco Pran cisco that all city em aloyes are entitled to a six day week in accordance with the state law and that there Is no good reason why any city employed should be compelled to work seven consecutive days each week Is the opinion of supervisor an drew J gallagher Gallag ber past secretary of the san francisco labor council ho some time ago introduced into the board of supervisors a resolution pro viding for one days day s rest in seven for all city employed emp loyes boston the annual report of 0 the boston elevated railroad Hall road company just isred reflects the strike which was called on that system june 7 the worst effect so far as the corn com pany s revenue Is concerned oc burred during the early stages ot of the strike when the so called strike breakers pocketed the greater part of the proceeds collected the net result was a deficit of after the payment ot of S 8 per cent on the company a capital hazleton pa thi th linemen of the harwood electric company the big concern that Is supplying current from here 0 towns in this section of the state within a radius of forty miles recen receded ed notice of a wage ad vance heretofore they got 2 50 a day and I 1 ad no limit of hours in the future they will be paid 33 cents an hour they work no fewer than eight ho ii us a a day there was talk ik of a strike in case the demands had been turned down chicago tre tie illinois central rail road company was sued by james 11 II wilkerson united states attorney tor for violations of the sixteen hour reg lons ions tor for railroads the eions were recommended by attorney general wickersham and a igge ted by tl e interstate commerce commie commis sion the suit is ot of ten counts and c larges the mauntel ance of crews on trains between lourds and east st louis ill for more than sixteen con hours bethlehem pa good news to more than 1000 1 employed emp loyes of the alpha ce ment company a employed emp loyes was the no tice posted in which the company granted a 10 per cent raise in wages the men affected are at the martin martins s creek and alpha N J plants boston firms employing more than so 80 per cent of the members of bos ton Upholster eis union 53 hav con ceded the new union scale of a minimum of 21 tor for the 47 hour work week the members are still on strike at 12 places the strike Is en bering its fourth week baltimore resolutions providing that no member of the Cigar makers international union should belong to the national CI chic ac federation were defeated at the convention here the vote against the resolutions was to 95 samuel gompers led the fight against the resolutions |