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There are now 5G labels and 10 cards issued by the fol
lowing organizations, which have been indorsed by the Amer
ican Federation of Labor :
Organizations Using Labels.
American Federation of La
bor. Bakers and Confectioners.
Boilermakers.
Blacksmiths.
Boot and Shoe Workers.
Brewery Workers.
Brickmakers.
Broommakcrs.
Brushmakers.
Carriage and Wagon Work-
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Carvers, Wood.
Cifrarmakers.
Cloth Iiat and Cap Makers.
Coopers.
Engravers, Watch Case.
Flour and Cereal Mill Em
ployes. Fur Workers.
Garment Workers, United.
Garment Workers, Lady.
Glass Bottle Blowers.
Glass Workers.
Glove Workers.
Gold Beaters.
Hatters.
Horscshoers.
Jewelry Workers.
Lathers.
Leather Workers on Horse
Goods.
ORGANIZATIONS
Actors.
Barbers.
Clerks.
.Engineers, Steam.
Firemen, Stationary.
Hotel and Restaurant Employes.
The following crafts and callings are using the American
Federation of Labor label : Artificial Limb Makers, Cos
turners, Badge and Lodge Paraphernalia Workers, Bottlers
(Soda, Mineral Water and Liquor), Coffee, Spice and Baking
Powder Workers, Cloth Spongers and Refinishers, Carbonic
Gas Workers, Cigar Makers' Tools, Nail (Horse Shoe) Work
ers, Neckwear Cutters and Makers, Oyster Workers, Paint
Workers, Photographic Supply Workers, Soap Workers, So
da and Mineral Water Workers, Starch Workers, Suspender
Makers, Steel Case Makers.
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AND CARDS
Machine Printers and Color
Mixers.
Machinists.
Metal Polishers.
Metal Workers, Sheet.
Moiders.
Painters.
Paper Box Makers.
Paper Makers.
Piano and Organ Workers.
Plate Printers."
Powder Workers.
Pressmen, Printing.
Print Cutters.
Rubber Workers.
Saw smiths.
Shirt, Waist and Laundry
Workers.
Stove Mounters.
Tailors.
Textile Workers.
Tip Printers.
Tobacco Workers.
Travelers' Goods and Leath
er Novelty W orkers.
Typographical.
Upholsterers.
Weavers, Goring.
Weavers, Wire.
Wood Workers.
Leather Workers.
USING CARDS.
Meat Cutters and Butcher
Workmen.
Musicians.
Musicians.
Stage Employes, Theatrical.
Teamsters.
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NEWS OF TRADE AND LABOR
General Information Concerning Those Who Are Doing
the Work of the World.
Reports from the brotherhood head-'
quarters in Indianapolis as to the ref
erendum vote of the United Brother
hood of Carpenters and Joiners on the
two plans of amalgamation of the
brotherhood with the Amalgamated
Society of Carpenters and Joiners
show that a majority of the members
of the brotherhood are in favor of the
plan proposed by their organization.
The vote of the Amalgamated Society
will be known this month. If it should
adopt the plan of the brotherhood the
amalgamation will take place Novem
ber 15. 1907.
In most callings when a member
happens to meet with a fatal accident
operations are suspended for the day.
Local union Xo. 1004, of the United
Mine Workers, has passed a resolu
tion which provides for the men to re
main at work and donate 25 per cent,
of the wages earned at the mine on
the day of the accident. It further
requests that the company contribute
an amount equal to that raised by the
workers.
The stevedores and longshoremen's
demands for increased wages- were
granted by the employing concerns
with the exception of the American
Hawaiian Steamship company, of San
Francisco. The employes, however,
refused to return to work with non
union men and as a consequence all
the lumber Vessels are tied up.
The delegates to the International
Typographical union convention ac
cepted the arbitration arrangement
with the American Newspaper Pub
lishers' association, assurance being
given by Frederick Driscoll, labor
commlsisoner for the publishers, that
the association would ratify it next
February. The agreement insures the
publishers against walkouts, strikes
or boycotts, they agreeing to arbitrate
all differences respecting wages, hours
and conditions of labor.
The cry for labor sent out from San
Francisco has been heard around the
world. Forty skilled mechanics have
arrived from Australia, where they
were paid $3 a day. They will re
ceive at least twice that pay here.
Protests against the alleged viola
tion of the eight-hour law and the em
ployment of Chinese coolie labor on
Panama canal works were filed with
,the isthmian commission at Washing
ton by representatives of district as
sembly No. 66, Knights of Labor.
Hot Springs, Ark., was selected for
next year's convention of the Interna
tional Typographical unioa, the vote
being: Hot Springs, 117; , Indianap
olU, 73. The proposition to increase
the salaries of the president and secre
tary-treasurer from $1,800 to $2,400
per year was adopted.
The new Municipal Federal building
in course of erection at Washington
has been placed under the ban of or
ganized labor because it is said the
contract for the plumbing and gas fit
ting has been awarded to a firm that
will employ nonunion workmen. Fifty-
seven building contracts, involving
about 150 structures, have been en
tered upon the "black list" of the
trades unions.
Officials of the Wigan (England)
Card Room Operatives' association
made an application for a five-cent
advance in wages, In the event of the
employers refusing the advance 1,400
or 1,500 car and blowing operatives
and ring spinners will be thrown idle.
' The successful negotiations of wage
agreements on the different street rail
roads in Chicago has given impetus
to the work of organization among the
street railway men in surrounding ter
ritory. Revised figures indicate that the
immigration to this country during the
fiscal year ended June 30 last was
73,574 greater than it was during the
fiscal year of 1905. The immigration
during last year aggregated 1,100,073
against 1,026,499 for the previous year.
Most of the immigrants came from
Austria-Hungary, Russia and Sweden
and Italy. Fewer came from England.
Scotland, France, Germany than for a
good many years.
The union bakers of Chicago suc
ceeded in establishing a new wage
scale in every shop but one in that
city. They received a flat increase of
one dollar per week over the old scale.
Nearly all employers in the carpen
tering trade in Manhattan, whether
members of the master carpenters' as
sociation or nonassociation men, so of
ficials of the carpenters' union report,
have granted an increase in wages
from $4.50 to $4.80 a day.
Provisions were made at the con
vention of the Amalgamated Window
Glass Workers' association in Cleve
land recently looking toward consoli
dating with the Cutters' and Flatten
ers association, which is strong in the
jPittsburg districts. At the last con
vention of the American Federation of
Labor 'the former organization was ad
mitted to membership, and is the only
bona fide body holding jurisdiction
over the cutters, flatteners, gatherers
and blowers.
The Bootmakers' union in New
South Wales, Australia, sends the
sheriff out after members who get be
hind in their dues and fail to pay up.
A member of the union in Sydney was
arrested by the sheriff after he had
been requested several times by the
union to pay his dues. . .
The McGuire memorial fund for the
benefit of the family of the late P. J.
McGuire, which is being raised by vol
untary subscriptions among the mem
bers of the United Brotherhood of Car
penters and Joiners has reached $3,-
oo.91. The fund for the relief of Cali
fornia sufferers by this organization
aggregates $15,843.75.
The grand lodge of the Brotherhood
of Railroad Trainmen has issued a
statement showing the increase in
membership in the paot ten years. On
January 1, 1896, the organization had
a membership of 20,331, and on July
1 ot this year the paid-up membership
was 83.2S1. The increase during the
first six months of 1906 was nearly
5,000, and the officers expect to have
a membership of 90,000 by the end of
this year. The organization is carry
ing more than $75,000,000 of insurance
on its members, and is the strongest
numerically and financially of all the
railroad biotherhoods.
The Electric Workers' union of
Pittsburg is demanding that inspection
be made of the wire laden poles of the
city by the municipality. They clajm
that the death rate from- falling and
charged wires averages one a week
throughout the country. The union
proposes to introduce an ordinance
into the next session of the city coun
cil looking to the abatement of the
evil.
The International Paper company
will soon begin an eight-hour day in
its mills. The new schedule will go
into effect gradually. The mills in
New York receive the time reduction
first, September 1. Later the Maine
mills of the company, which employ
about 2,000 hands, will have the short
er day. It is said that the change
means an increase of 33 per cent, in
the number of employes.
At the recent session of the Interna
tional Miners' congress in Europe the
report of the' credential committee
was to the effect that there are 708,
200 miners in Great Britain, of whom
480,000 are -organized, and have elect
ed 14 members of the house of com
mons. In France there are about
200,000 miners, and 150,000 are organ
ized; they have two members in the
French parliament. In Belgium there
are 135,000 miners, 65,000 of whom are
organized, and they have two mem
bers in the Belgian parliament. In
Germany there are 600,000 miners, of
whom 112,000 belong to the German
Miners' federation and 70,000 belong
to the German Christian Miners fed
eration. Austria has 135,000 miners,
of whom 40,000 are organized into
unions. The United States has 550,000
miners, 365,000 of whom belong to
unions. It was therefore claimed that
out of something like 2,250,000 miners
1,282,000 were organized in trade
unions, and had sent 116 delegates to
the congress.
It has been stated by Mr. Johnson,
president of the upper Indian cham
ber of commerce, that under the pres
ent conditions an Indian weaver, work
ing 72 hours- a week, turns out at the
very best only 70 pounds of cloth,
while the European, working 54 hours,
can turn out 468 pounds.
Judge J. Gillpatrick, in the district
court at Leavenworth, Kan., confirmed
a temporary injunction restraining the
officers of local Carpenters' and Join
ers' Union No. 494 from fining and ex
pelling certain members of the union.
The offense of these men was that
they refused to quit the employ of a
Leavenworth contractor , who had
bought lumber from a firm boycotted
by the union. The judge held in ef
fect that the proposed punishment of
these men was coercion and therefore
unlawful.
Val Fitzpatrick, second grand vice
president, has ordered the switch
men's strike In the east to end at
once, declaring that it was illegal and
unwarranted. The Brotherhood will
aid the New York, New Haven &
Hartford road in filling vacancies.
The joint convention of coal miners
and operators of district No. 19
(Tenn.), United Mine Workers of
America, agreed upon a wage scale
effective September 1 next and to
continue for one year. The new scale
is in effect a restoration of the sched
ule of wages of 1903. The scale for
yardage will remain unchanged, a
concession by the miners. The opera
tars yielded their demands for the
scale to terminate June 1, 1907, in
stead of September 1, 1907, as desired
by the miners. A board of arbitra
tion will hear and adjust all com
plaints not disposed of by the joint
convention.
The locomotive engineers employed
on the hundreds of work trains oper
ated by the United States in dirt haul
ing in the canal zone, seizing an occa
sion when Chairman Shonts, of the
canal commission, was in the isthmus,
have made the following demands:
Increase of pay from $180 to $225 a
month; time and half pay for all work
done in excess of eight hours; double
time for Sundays and holidays and
free transportation to and from the
United States when on leave.
The Iron Trades Council of San
Francisco has decided to take a stand
for an eight-hour day. This is the
first body of the kind in America to
reach such a decision. Six thousand
men are involved.
FOR MOTOR CARS.
A New Improved Light-Weight Igni
tion Storage Battery.
Our illustration show the general
appearance of a new light-weight ig
nition cell put up in celluloid jars by
Improved Light-Weight Ignition Stor
age Cells. (Voltage, 6; Ampere
Hours, 25; Weight, 12 Pounds.)
a New York company." The battery
illustrated consists of three 5-plate
cells having a total capacity of 25
ampere-hours and furnishing a total
of six volts. The cells and contain
ing case complete weigh only 12
pounds, which is extremely light for
a battery of this voltage and capacity,
says the Scientific American. The
battery shown was constructed espe
cially for use on a flying machine,
but the greatest sphere of usefulness
for cells of this kind is on automo
biles. Not only are these batteries of
about half the weight for the same
capacity of cells used heretofore, but
the plates are constructed after a
special process which gives them
great porosity and a long life. They
can be charged and discharged . a
large number of times, and at a high
rate, without injury, and, what is
more important with an ignition cell,
they can be left standing in a dis
charged condition for a long time
without nay loss of capacity. In oth
er words, abuse of this character.
which would completely ruin some of
the light-weight foreign ignition cells,
will cause no perceptible difference
in the efficiency of this improved bat
tery. The capacity, unlike that of
most ignition accumulators, is fully
equal to the rating.
Two 50-ampere-hour cells giving
four volts, for example, weigh only
16 pounds, and yet they will be found
sufficient to run a four-cylinder car
at least 1,200 miles. Comparing these
figures with those of other ignition
cells, it will be seen that, durability
aside, the battery is a decided ad
vance over what has been done be
fore as regards light weight.
IMPROVED RAIL BOND.
Method by Which a Firmer Electrical
Contact Is Secured.
A patent has recently been secured
by Edwin W. Rotrinson, of Punxsu-
An Improved Rail Bond.
tawney, Pa., on an improved rail bond
for electric railways. The new bond
is arranged to insure an exceedingly
firm electrical connection between ad
jacent rails, and in a very simple and
economical manner.
The invention will be clearly com
prehended by a glance at the accom
panying engraving, says the Scientific
American. It comprises a conductor
in the form of rod, which is bent to
enter holes in the webs of two adja
cent rails. The ends of the rod are
threaded to receive a pair of nuts,
which enter the holes in the webs.
The nuts are formed with frustro-con-ical
ends, and as the nuts are
screwed up on the rod, they not only
draw the rod into close contact with
the webs of the rails, but also wedge
their frustro-conical ends tightly into
the holes in the1 webs. This insures
an exceedingly good electrical con
nection between the adjacent rails. It
will be evident that the new rail bond
can be applied to rails as now con
structed. Electrical Divining Rod.
An electrical divining rod, claimed
to operate more certainly and scientif
ically than the ancient and dishonored
twig, has been devised ; by Adolph
Schmid, a Swiss engineer. It seems
,to consist essentially of a glass-covered
box enclosing a coil of insulated
wire in which a slightly magnetized
needle is free to rotate over a gradu
ated dial. When the apparatus is
placed over subterranean water, with
the axis of the coil In the magnetic
meridian, -the needle, - it is asserted,
oscilates more or less rapidly for two
to ten and even up to 58 degrees.
TELEGRAPH KEY AND SOUNDER
How the Complete Outfit Can Be
- Made by the Amateur.
The sounder, Fig. 1, is made from
an old electric bell magnet, D, fast
ened to a wooden base. The lever,
A, can be made of brass and the arm
ature, C, is made of iron. The pivot,
E, is made from a wire nail and is
soldered to A. It should be filed to
a point at each end so as to move
freely in the . bearings, B, which are
pieces of hard wood.
The spring, H, is fastened at each
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should not be too strong or the mag
net will be unable to move the arma
ture. .The stop, K, is a wire nail
driven deep enough in the base to
leave about one-eighth-inch between
the armature and the magnet. The
binding posts, F, can be taken from
old dry batteries and are connected to
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wires run in grooves cut in the base.
The base of the key. Fig. 2, is alsas
made of wood, says Popular Mechan
ics, and has two wooden bearings, E,
which are made to receive a pivot,
similar to the one used in the sound
er. The lever of the key is made of
brass and has a hardwood knob, A,
fastened near the end. A switch, D,
connects with the pivot at F and can
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Sounder A, brass; B, wood; C, soft
iron; DD, coils wound with No. 26
wire; E, nail soldered on A; FF,
binding posts; H, spring.
be either made from sheet brass, or
taken from a small one-point switch.
The binding posts are like those of
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ered to nail; C, brass; D, brass; E,
wood; F, connection of D to nail;
HH, binding posts.
the sounder, and are connected to the
contacts, K, by wires run in grooves
cut -in the wood.
EXTENSION CALL BELL.
How the Ring of the Telephone Can
dw carried aome Distance.
In many shops, where the telephone
is in the office and the proprietor
spends a great part of the time in the
shop, the telephone often rings re
peatedly without being answered, as
there is nobody within hearing dis
tance. In many cases of this kind an
extension call bell, such as is shown
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vantage.
The telephone bell. A, is fitted with
a piece of hard rubber, B, having a
metal contact, C, which is placed so
that the hammer will strike it and
make contact. Part of the gong may
be cut away to do this, or if neces
sary, the whole gong may be removed.
The other gong is connected to one
side of the battery, and the other
side connects to an electric bell, D,
which can be placed in any desired
location. If the bell does not work
well, short circuit the interrupter.
This will not prevent it from vibrat
ing, as the current is intermittent,
being interrupted at C, and if the in-
Arrangement of the Wires.
terruptions at C and D are not in uni
son the result will not be good.
I have one of these bells in use at
the present time, says a corresponu
ent of Popular Mechanics, and find
it a great convenience.
AN ELECTRICITY THIEF.
Case Where a Householder Secured
Enough Current to Light His House.
"Electricity thieves crop up now
and then," said an electrician to the
reporter of the Philadelphia Bulletin.
"Our last case was a man who had
lighted his whole house with stolen
electricity for six months.
"Next door to this man was a big
factory that used 1,000 lights a night.
The man bored a hole through a parti
tion. Inserted a wire, tapped the fac
tory's current and helped himselt
bountifully to illumination.
"We lost nothing. The factory paid,
of course, for the electricity stolen
from it. The theft wasn't discovered
till some time after the' thief had,
moved away." ' Vv
Steel Plate Sky-Scraper.
San Francisco is to have a 15-story;
building of which all the walls are ta
be of eteel plates.
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