GENERAL MENTION.
Bits of Labor News Gathered Chiefly
With the Scissors.
The union label that's all.
Look for the union label.
If it is not labeled, refuse it.
Union made shoes are sold by Hog
Hi & Perkins.
Thlrty-slx unions, out of a total of
forty-six In Duluth, Minn., are affiliated
with the trades assembly.
Fall River (Mass.) weavers have ac
cepted a compromise that 47 1-2 yards
constitute a cut, and the threatened
strike is off.
San Francisco (Cal.) Stone Cutters'
Union, 'through its executive commit-
tee, has decided to submit Its differ
ences with employers to arbitration.
'Salem has been decided on as the
place for holding the semi-annual con
vention of the Steam Engineers'
unions of Massachusetts, Qecember
The Consolidated Granite company,
of Winston, has closed ia deal by
which It will control the Balfour pink
granite quarry in Rowan county, near
Salisbury.
The largest shipbuilding firms are to
be found in the Baltic ports; large
firms have also established themselves
on the Elbe and Weser.
The trouble which existed in Pitts
burg with several contractors is set
tled. The men have returned to work
under the 1907 agreement. They got
everything they asked for.
It Is believed that if all the labor
unions of San Francisco, Cal., were to
join in a common cause a great hos
pital could be erected and maintained
at a comparatively small cost per capi
ta. The broommakers' union of San
Francisco Is making a fight against
convict-made brooms. It has asked
organized labor not to purchase any
broom that does not bear the union
stamp.
The Coast Seamen's Journal says
that the San Francisco Street Rail
way company has issued a bunch of
three-year notes for $1,500,000 at six
per cent to meet the cost of the strike
in that city.
The convention of the Iron Moulders'
Union of North America concluded Its
sessions at Philadelphia on August 9.
President Joseph Valentine and the
olhr officers were re-electd by unani
mous vote.
All the bookbinders in St. Joseph,
Mo., have joined the local union and
the employers have signified their
willingness to sign up and the out
come will be a closed shop in all the
binderies.
The Wisconsin assembly has passed
a bill limiting the hours for railroad
telegraphers to eight hours a day,
and has also passed a law giving
street railway employes a ten-hour
day within twelve.
Fifty Russian women employed as
fruit cutters at the Griffin Skelly can
nery at Fresno, Cal., stormed the can
nery cn August 15 after they had
walked out, having been refused a de
mand for higher wages.
The long-threatened tie-up of the
buihling industries of Washington, D.
C, reached a crisis on August 8, when
the carpenters, bricklayers and other
union workmen employed on buildings
went on strike.
The movement for the stamping
out of tuberculosis has become na
tional. Tuberculosis has for many
years been the scourge of the print-
Ing trade. It Is believed by the union
printers that unsanitary and badly
ventilated composing rooms are re
sponsible for much of the tuberculo
sis that exists among them, and they
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made victims of a disease that in
nearly all cases spells death.
Some 70,000 Scotch miners have re
newed their demand for an advance in
wages of 12 1-2 per cent. The present
tes amount to about 6 shillings i
pence a clay in wages, so that the de
mand is considerable.
No sign of a trades union label has
been found earlier than 1874. It ap
pears to be wholly of American origin,
nor is any evidence at hand that
unions elsewhere, except in Canada,
show special interest in it.
Corporation laborers of Calgary,
Canada, have received an increase
from 25 to 27 cents an hour, and it
has been decided by the city council
that eight hours shall constitute a
working day, except in cases of necessity.
A call for a conference of textile
manufacturers and labor representa
tives in all southern states, to be held
in Nashville on October 14, to consider
the question of child labor, has been
isued by Governor Patterson of Tennessee.
The master plumbers and represen
tatives of the buildings now being
erected at Goldfield, Nev., have taken
determined stand against the de
mands of the journeymen plumbers for
an increase in wages from $8 to $9 a
day.
Sixteen elevator men of the twenty-
story Empire building Broadway
and Rector street, New York city, went
on strike on August 8. They want
higher pay and shorter hours. They
are getting $55 a month for ten hours
nd a half a -lay.
The Springfield (Mass.) street car
men now ask for a sliding scale from
$2.25 to $2.75 a day, the wage to in
crease from the $2.25 minimum by 10
cents for each year's service until the
maximum is reached after the sixth
ear.
The convention of theatrical stage
mployes, held recently In Norfolk,
a., had before It a proposition to es
tablish a sick benefit fund, also a fu
neral benefit fund. It was decided to
submit this to the subordinate bodies
for a referendum vote.
The Glass Bottle Blowers' associa
tion has a membership of 13,000 and
its assets are approaching the' million
dollar mark. There have been no
trikes for fifteen years, and that
body is now one of the strongest la
bor" organizations in the world.
Boilermakers employed by the South-
rn Pacific Railroad company at Los
Angeles, Cal., went on strike on Au
gust 7 to force the discharge of an ob-
nbxious forman and for other con
sessions. The str-ike has spread and
may involve the entire system.
Large crews of men have been going
to the West through the Minneapolis
(Minn.) employment offices for a long
time, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming,
Washington and Oregon taking the
bulk. The work supplied is under
stood to be railroad building.
The struggle of the Lithographic
Artists, Engravers and Designers' Lea
gue with the National Association of
Employing Lithographers, which be
gan In August, 1906, is reported to
have ended as the result of the aband
onment of the fight by the union.
A rather serious situation has arisen
in the Northumberland (England)
coal field by the determination of the
members of the Miners' Association to
strike against non-unionists. The
council is not favorable to such ac
tion, but they may have to give in to
the popular demand; and it is feared
that a strike may take place against
non-unionists. .
The fifth general convention of the
International Hod Carriers' and Build
ing Laborers' Union of America will
held in Central Labor Union ball,
corner Bank and City Hall avenue,
the city of Norfolk, Virginia, be
nning the second Monday in Septem
ber, September 9th, 1907, at 9 o'clock.
and will continue in session from day
o day until the business of the con
tention is completed.
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Cool Evening' Reading.
The printer man who furnished the
copy for the Butte page in the Hot
Springs souvenir was a prophet. At
the top of the page, in big display type,
were the words, "WE GOT OURS."
And you bet they did! It took the con
vention about a minute to hand Butte
a lemon big enough to be seen as far
away as Toronto. And as the lemon
was passed we were quite sure we
heard a chuckle across the far stretch
of territory that separated the East
man hotel from Shelby Smith's editor-
ial den in Philadelphia. You bet
Butte got "her's."
The organization committee of the
Hot Springs convention submitted the
following recommendation, which was
adopted: "We recommend that local
unions and the membership in general
use their best endeavors to discourage
and prevent the free discussion of
union business in public resorts, to
the end that our debates may be con
fined to our union halls and other pro
per places." O. piffle! Is that what
we are paying out good money lor.'
Did the proposition to have the ap
peals committee elected by the conven
vention go through? Well, hardly!
President Lynch led the fight -against
the proposition, and he was backed up
by Secretary Bramwood and Chair
man Tracy of the laws committee. To
let the convention elect that committee
might prevent the executive council
from wielding quite so much arbitrary
power, and that, of course would never
do. And a convention made up of in
telligent men actually turned down a
proposition that no honest, justice lov
ing believer in fair play could object
to. But the "big chief" didn't want
it, and when he took snuff a majority
of the delegates sneezed.
The "New Orleans proposition" was
so fair and so just that the executive
council knew it could not .fight it
squarely on the floor. But It did not
have to. It just gave the laws com
mittee the hint, and Tracey and his
committee held it back until the clos
ing hours of the convention, when
there was not time to give it even
cursory consideration. That's only
one way the executive council has of
'enforcing its will." '
Xate Newman of New York says
the most pathetic sight he saw in a
city of cripples and incurables was
that of "Who Go Miller wandering
about the streets with a vacant stare
in his eyes, looking for the executive
council." Nate is such a joker.
' Frank Swigart stopped a visitor to
say: "I've just come from a chiropo
dist's; my feet are in bad shape." J
J. Dirks came by just in time to hear
it and quietly remarked: "I never be
fore knew that a chiropodist could do
anything for cold feet."
the Scottish Weavers went to prison
for directing a strike to secure wages
Hied by a justice of the peace and
refused by employers.
As late as 1817 ten delegates of the
Calico Printers of Boston were jailed
for meeting to consider the question
of wages.
At a meeting in Boston in 1832,
merchants and shipowners subscribed
a twenty thousand dollar fund to fight
the movement for a ten-hour day.
Horace Mann, Robert Rantoul, James
G. Carter and Wendell Phillips sided
with the work people. Mr. Randall
defended the journeymen bootmakers
in an important case which was de
cided for them in 1842, and finally
established the right of workingmen
to combine. Machinists' Journal.
NOT LONG AGO.
Hew "Agitators" Were Treated Less
Than a Century Gone.
In 1812 the Central Committee of mont Daily Herald.
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