Show items of interest in the labor world pennsylvania organizations arc combining wages increased and period for work reduced V in many places arrangements have been practically completed for the consolidation of the three central labor organizations in the vicinity of pittsburg pa the united labor league iron city council and the building trades council the tarco composing about workmen the twenty sixth annual convention of the new jersey state federation of labor was held in the assembly chamber at the house recently ontario canada factory inspectors have inaugurated a crusade against those who employ child labor in tac the first agreement ever made between the delaware and hudson railroad and its workmen has been signed at barre pa it looks as it a strike of the iron workers all over germany Is near though at present only the employed emp loyes of one great berlin firm are actually striking the twentieth annual convention of the trades and labor congress of canada will be held in montreal beginning tuesday september 20 boston mass unions have expressed desires for national assistance in tho campaign now being conducted in eastern massachusetts to organize re tall clerks of every line A report was adopted urging subordinate unions to appoint local corn to further the introduction ot label on text books the question of female labor Is becoming a factor in the business life of the city of mexico as well as in soma of the larger cities of mexico only a few years ago this help was almost unknown in offices and stores but with each year the supply Is becoming larger the wages paid to the young women are not as yet very large but the prospects are that as they become more efficient the standard of wages paid them will improve an amalgamation ot the member ahia of the international association of machinists and international fion of allied metal mechanics was arranged at cleveland ohio recently at a conference between representatives of those two organizations the union will become effective october 31 the name of the new organization will be the international association of machinists ts stone and marblo cutters marble and tile setters and hoisting engineers all receive cents an hour in new york city the blue paper union label of the brotherhood of leather workers on horse goods was abolished at the recent convention and in its stead a steel stamp of appropriate design will be stamped upon the product of the members of that organization working in union shops the federation trades council at milwaukee wis has endorsed indorsed Indor sed the action of the state federation of labor in declaring against the proposed practice of questioning candidates tor office upon what they intend to do for organized labor the only solution the thinks Is to elect men from labors ranks canton 0 now has a strike break ers strike A year agotha stark roll ing mill company of that city engaged in a with the amalgamated association in anich the union lost the plant since then has been tully operated by unorganized workmen recently the strikebreakers strike breakers struck because notices were posted asking for a reduction of wages pipe and workers in asbestos material held a convention in cleveland 0 recently and formed an international union which affiliates with the american federation of labor and the national building trades council the new organization hag a membership of about throughout fhe country the brotherhood of locomotive engineers Is agitating the abolition of or a charge in the present system of mail cranes A number of engineers have been struck and killed recently by the device after periods of irregularity two cotton mills in the blackstone Blacks tono valley of rhode island started up on full time the naashon naushon company at valley falla which had been closed for three weeks opened with em aloyes and the samoset company at valley falls havana cuba longshoremen have now been on strike for eight weeks the cause of the trouble was the refusal of the workmen to wear badges indicative of their rank f union laborers at birmingham ala secure a day while the nonunion non union men get a day there are fifty two unions in new england affiliated with the hotel and restaurant and bartenders international union and the total new england membership is two thousand cloak makers went on otrice in cleveland ohio recently increase in wages recognition of the union and closed shops are demanded owners of a number of factories willing to grantt be increase but declined the closed chop demand about ten thousand people are employed in the various departments not including hundreds of contract cloak makers who also are out the railroad has made another reduction in its working forces tn the ahapa it was announced r fai at altoona that more men will be dropped the next week the builders laborers to the number of about 1500 went on strike recently in toronto tor an increase in their wages from 25 to 28 cents an hour their action may involve all the different building trades should it do so the bosses will declare a shutdown shut down the cost of life incurred in making and distributing drink in england and wales during the past ten years Is said to have cost the lives of males 25 to 66 years ot age of whom would not have died had they not been engaged in this particular trade the appeal 0 the cotton planters to southern congressmen to aek government aid in securing plenty of labor has been acted upon the depart ment of labor at washington has informed the mississippi congressmen that within six months over italian immigrants will land in america an assurance Is given that of these will land at southern ports and that will have come by october 1 the busiest part of the season arrangements have been reached for securing families of finns who are fleeing from russian oppression to settle in labrador and begin work as mill hands |