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Boston. All danger of a strike ol
the hatters fs over.
Philadelphia. The United Mine
Workers organized 38 new local unions
In June.
Stockton, Cal. Wages of carpenters
were increased 50 per cent, recently.
The scale Is now $4.50 a day.
San Francisco. Announcement has
been made that all Italian barber
shops in the city have been unionized.
New York. Drug clerks throughout
the Atlantic states are forming unions
and joining the retail clerks' interna
tional union.
Des Moines, la. The proposition to
establish an old age home for miners
was defeated by the Iowa mine work
ers on a referendum vote.
Glasgow. The Scottish Cooperative
society was organized in 1868 with a
capital of less than $9,000. Now it has
a capital of more than $1,500,000.
London, England. There is consid
erable unrest In Lancashire by rea
son of the demand of the cotton spin
ners for an advance of five per cent.
Toronto, 1 Canada. The structural
iron workers have been granted an
increase in wages of 2V4 cents per
hour and a threatened serious strike
averted.
Bath, Me. John G. Longley, of this
city, recently rounded out 40 years'
continuous service as an iron and
brass molder. He is probably the old
est molder In the state.
Chicago. The United Brotherhood
of Carpenters during 1906 paid bene
fits amounting to $107,000, and the
death and disability claims during
that period amounted to $218,202.
Philadelphia. More than 1,000 per
sons were killed last year in the coal
mines of Pennsylvania, according to
the annual report of James Roderick,
chief of the department of mines.
Chicago. Cigarmakers' Internation
al union is now combating a lockout
in Georgia and a strike at Mobile, Ala.,
the latter for an increase of wages.
There is also a strike" at Havana,
Cuba.
New York. An expert who has been
compiling data on strikes declares that
the greatest number of strikes occur
in the building trades, and that the
second greatest number is in the tex
tile trades.
London, England. The highest acci
dent death rate among industrial work
ers In Great Britain is among seamen
(53 per 10,000), and the death rate of
seamen In sailing vessels is three
times as great as even this ratio.
Chicago. Non-union pipe men em
ployed by the Wabash caused a dis
cord among the union men in other
departments and the road ended the
strike by permitting the union men
to return at an increase in pay from
28 to 31 cents per hour. The strike
lasted about two months.
Washington. Arrangements are be
ing completed between the American
Federation of Labor and national trade
unions of England, Scotland, Germany,
Denmark, Austria, Belgium, Norway,
Netherlands and other foreign coun
tries to interchange union cards be
tween unions of kindred crafts and
callings. In addition to this worldwide
movement between the organized
wage workers of the world, the Ameri
can Federation of Labor and the Amer
ican Society of Equity (the farmers'
unions of the United States) have
formed an alliance. The organized
wage workers of the world represent
more than 50,000,000 people. The more
advanced leaders propose an interna
tional convention of all craft unions.
Duluth, Minn. The strike of the
ore dock workers is at an end, and the
men returned to work. Nothing has
been gained by the men who went out,
nor have they lost anything except
their time. Their status is the same
as it was the day they voted to strike.
All of the employes of the Duluth, Mis-
sabe & Northern road were taken
back by the company' without preju
dice, and the pay they have been re
ceiving under a verbal agreement with
the company, .which would not have
expired until October 31, next, will
continue.
New York. International Associa
tion of Machinists made a demand on
behalf of the machinists of New York
and vicinity for an increase in wages
of 25 cents a day, affecting 15,000
men. The Amalgamated ..Society of
Engineers has made a similar demand
for about 2,000 machinists in that or
ganization, which takes in about 30
of the metal shop trades. This is the
first time the International Association
of Machinists and the Amalgamated
Society of Engineers, which has its
headquarters In England, and is an
international body, have united in a
demand.
St Petersburg. A big strike of agri
cultural laborers is being prepared in
Kiev, Russia. The governor threatens
to have recourse to military force, if
necessary, to meet the situation.
New York. The last New York La
bor Bulletin, just issued by the depart
ment of labor, gives the number of
organized men and women in the Em
pire state as 398,494.
San Francisco. The telephone oper
ators, who have been out on strike
since May 2, returned to work under
the same conditions prevailing when
they walked out. The strike was de
clared off.
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Buffalo, N. Y. The members of the
Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators
and Paperhangers of America have de
feated the proposition to elect national
officers at the annual convention, in
stead of by referendum. The Buffalo
members were against the proposition.
Lowell, Mass. This year Lowell
broke all records for August vacations.
For the first time in the city's history,
the big mills, with one exception,
closed their gates during a period of
great business activity, and about 15,
000 operatives enjoyed a vacation of
ten days. The clatter of the loom
ceased on August 23, and will not be
heard again until the Tuesday after
Labor day. The Lawrence Manufac
turing company, operating the world's
largest hosiery, will not shut down.
La Crosse, Wis. A pastors' union,
composed of all the Protestant clergy
men of this city, is affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor. Mem
bers of the other trades look upon, the
preachers as brother workers, admit
their delegate to the meetings of the
Trades and Labor council and have a
representative of that body at the
meeting of the clergymen. On last
Labor day the preachers marched with
the printers, the cigarmakers, the
bricklayers and other unions in the
Labor day parade, while at a recent
meeting of the pastors they were ad
dressed by a delegate from the boot
and shoe makers' union in advocacy
of insisting on the union label when
making purchases of shoes.
Helena, Mont. The Rocky Mountain
Bell Telephone company has filed suit
in the federal court against the Mon
tana Federation of Labor, the Livings
ton Trade and Labor council, Tele
phone Operators' union No. 42, Alex
ander Fairgrieves, H. O. Smith, L. W.
Thorpe, Almodose Grenier and Effie
Le Fevre to obtain an order restrain
ing the respondents from interfering
with or molesting in any way the bus
iness of the company, and to shut off
the boycott which the complainant al
leges has been in force since March
14, last. The trouble is the outgrowth
of the strike of the linemen in Utah,
Idaho, Wyoming and Montana, the
Montana federation having ordered
the Rocky Mountain company declared
unfair in all Montana cities and or
dered tout all switchboard operators.
Chicago. Following is a list of
dates of international conventions and
places of meeting to the close of the
year: August 21, Cincinnati, O., metal
polishers; September 2, St. Louis, ma
chinists; September 2, Indianapolis,
post office clerks; September 3, Eu
reka, Cal., woodsmen and sawmill
workers; September 9, Indianapolis,
brick, tile and terra cotta workers;
September 2, Boston, cottonmill spin
ners; September 10, Memphis, Tenn.,
cement workers; September 16, New
Orleans, bridge and structural iron
workers; September 16, New York
city, wood carvers; September 27,
Waldon, N. Y., pocket knife blade
grinders and- finishers ; October 3, Chi
cago, wood, wire and metal lathers;
October 6, Milwaukee, blacksmiths
and helpers; October 7, Chicago, photo
engravers' union; October 8, New Or
leans, street and electric railway em
ployes; October 7, Bay City, Mich.,
shipwrights, joiners and calkers; Oc
tober 15, Rochester, N. Y., interna
tional car workers' association; Octo
ber 15, Providence, R. I., united textile
workers; November 11, Norfolk, Va.,
American federation of labor; Decem
ber 2, Chicago, bill posters and billers;
December 2, Chicago, seamen's union.
San Francisco. The laundry work
ers have all returned to their respec
tive posts and the statement is made
that for three years all will be quiet
In the laundries of San Francisco.
Boston. The building mechanics of
the Boston & Maine railroad have re
ceived a wage increase. The commit
tee which conferred with General Su
perintendent Lee and the trades repre
sented are: John L. Dorney for the
plumbers and steamfitters, general
chairman; Frank H. Barrett for the
carpenters, Timothy Johnson for the
roofers, A. Leighton for the painters,
Justin Belleview for the gatemen, Al
vin Stark for the tinsmiths and Charles
Ford for the masons and bricklayers.
New York. In an editorial in the
Engineering News concerning wealth
and wage earners, protests against the
unequal distribution of the former and
the oppression of the latter are an
swered with this statement: "Capi
tal is now receiving about SI, where
labor is receiving $3, or to put it in
another way, if the annual product of
the country (the money earned by cap
ital and labor), is divided into four
equal heaps capital is getting one of
these heaps and labor the other three."
London, England. The total mem
bership of the Women's Trade Union
league in Great Britain is in excess of
135,000.
Atlanta, Ga. The Farmers' union,
of Georgia, with a membership of 30,
000, has gone on record as being bit
terly opposed to bringing foreign Im
migrants into the south.
Washington. Inquiry Into the need
of various states and territories for
Immigrant labor has been instituted
by T. V. Powderly, chief of the divi
sion of information, recently estab
lished In connection with the bureau
of immigration.
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