Ogden Evening Standard | 1912-09-18 | Page 4 | Labor News of All Countries

LABOR NEWS Of ALL COUNTRIES Until tho strike of the Illinois Central Cen-tral and Harriman lines system federation fed-eration shopmen is declared off, the' 340,000 members of the Federation of Federations will assess each member ono day's wages each month, In accord ac-cord with a referendum vote of the F of F. membership. At Fort Worth, Texas, after negotiations nego-tiations covering a considerable period, per-iod, tho electricians (inside) and thoir employers have reached an agreement agree-ment which increases the wage scale 50 cents a day on January 1, 1913, and hlch also calls for the union shop. The signal men on the London and Northwestern Railway company have had their working time reduced The maximum will now bo ten hours a day while in many districts where threo shifts are possible tho eight-hour day instead of twelve hours a dav will be Instituted. After seven woeks. the strike of 10.000 London, England, Bast End workers in the ladies' costumo and mantle-making trades, originally declared de-clared as a sympathetic movement in connection with the recent strike of the West End tailors, has ended In a victory for the strikers. New York bricklayers are the high-oat high-oat paid mechanics in the building trades in. the United States, their wago being 75 cents au hour, with double pay for over time over eight hours work and for Sunday and holiday holi-day work. They have also the closed 6hop, and have put a crimp In tho sub-contracting system. After a hard and bitter fight between be-tween the Master and Journeymen Horseshoers of Cincinnati, Ohio, the lockout terminated in a sweeping vlc- torv for tho journeymen. The majority ma-jority of horse-shoeing shop owners requested thc men to return to work with an Increase of 50 cents a day for the labor men nnd 25 cents a day for firemen.