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CONVENTIONS IN 1908.
Where and When Trades Union Gath
erings Will Be Held.
May 11. New York City. Actors Na
tional Protective Union of America
May 11. St. Louis. Ma, American
Federation of Musicians.
May 11. . United Brotherhood
ot Papermakers of America.
May , Detroit. Mich.. Intern c
Tin Plate Workers' Protective Associa
tion ot America.
SUy v Tort. Pa, National Print
Cutters' Association of America.
Jane 1. St- Paul, Minn.. Brother
hood of Boilermakers and Iron Ship
builders of America.
Jane 1. Detroit. Mich-. International
Association ot Steam and Hot Water
F tiers and Helpers ot America.
Jane Washington. D. C, Inter
national Union ot Journeymen Horse-
Jane. Mobile. Ala, International
Printing Pressmen's Union.
Jane 1. Coin-nous, Ohio, Oainmak
ers National Union of the United
States ef America.
June 1. St. Louis. Mo, international
Association ot Marble Workers. -
Jane 8. International Ceramic
Mosaic and Eencaustic Tile Layers
and Helpers Union.
June S. Cincinnati, Ohio, Interna
tional Brotherhood ot Bookbinders,
June S. International Brother
hood ot Tip Printers,
June S, Milwaukee. Wis, The Com
mercial Telegraphers' Union of
April 6, Toronto, Canada, Interna
teonal Association ot Fur Workers ot
the United States and Canada.
May 3. Brockton. Mass, Internu
txtcuU Union ot Cutting Die and Cutter
Makers.
May 5. Yoangstown, Ohio. Amalga-
America.
July 4. Amalgamated Leather
Workers Union ot America.
July . Atlantic City. N. J. National
Brotherhood ot Opera tiTe Longshor-
men's Association.
July 6. Buffalo. N. Y, International
Jewelry Workers Union.
Jufcr 6. Cincinnati. Ohio. Brush-
n-akers International Ulnoa.
July 7. Baltimore. Md, Glass Bottle
Blowers' Association ot the Unite.!
' States and Canada.
July 13. Toronto, Canada, Interna
tiona Piano and Organ Workers.
lou ot America.
July 13. -Indianapolis, Ind Lithe
graphers International Protective A
fociatioa.
July 13, Minneapolis. Minn, Theat- j
rical Stage Employes International
Alliance. j
Jnly 1$. Holyoke, Mass, American
Wire Weavers Protective Association, j
Jnly 20, New York City, Interna-
tional Steel aad Copper Plate Printers ;
Union, i
August 3, Buffalo. N. Y, National
Association of Heat, Frost, General In
sulators and Asbestos Workers.
August 4. Detroit, Mich, Interna
tional Glove Workers Union ft
America.
August 19, Detroit. Mich, Interna
tional Brotherhood of Stationary Fire
men. August 6, Detroit, Mich, Interna
tional Brotherhood of Teamsters.
August IS. Boston, Mass, Interna
tional Typographical Union.
August In. Boston, Mass, Interna
tional Stereotypers and Electrotypers
Union.
August 11. Indianapolis. Ind, Shirt
Waist aad Laundry Workers Interna
tional Union.
August St. Milwaukee, Wis, United
orment Workers of America.
September 1. . Table Knife
Grinders National Union.
September X Milwaukee, Wis,
American Brotherhood of Cement
Workers.
September 7. Denver, Coin, Inter
national Association of Machinists.
September 8. New York City. Inter-
national Photo Engravers Union ct
North America.
September In. Boston. Mass, Spin
ners International Union.
September It, Montreal, Canals,
Journeymen Stonecutters Association
of North' America.
September It, Philadelphia, Pa, In
ternational Union of Steam Engineers.
September 14, Philadelphia. Pa, In
ternational Brick. Tile and Terra Cotta
Workers Alliance.
September 13. Salt Lake City. Utah.
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners ot America.
September 17. New York City. Pock
et Knife Blade Grinders and Finish
ers National Union.
September 11. Indianapolis. Ind
United Association of Plumbers, Gas-
filters. Steamfitters and Steamfitters'
Helpers of United States and Canada.
September 31. Indianapolis. Ind
International Association of ' Bridgc
and Structural Iron Workers.
October 5. Washington, D. C, Bak
ery and Confectionery Workers In
ternational Union.
October 3. St. Louis. Mo, Interna
tional Union of Wood. Wire and Metal
Lathers.
October 20. Coaoes, N. Y, United
Textile Workers of America.
November 3, Denver, Colo, Ameri
can Federation of Labor.
November 19, Bangor, Pa, Interna
tional Union of Slate Workers.
November 12. YinaJhaven. Me, Lob
ster Fisherf men's International Protec
tive Association.
December 7, New Orleans, La, In
ternational Brotherhood of Mainten-ance-of-Way
Employes.
December 7, Brooklyn. N. Y, Na
tional Alliance of Bill Posters and
Fillers of America. .
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF
LABOR.
A Few of Its Declarations Upon Which
It Appeals to All Working People
To Organize, Unite, Federate, ai
Cement the Bonds of Fraternity.
1- The Abolition of all Forms of In
voluntary Servitude, except, as a pun
ishment for crime.
Free School i. Free Text Books.
snd Compulsory education.
3. Unrelenting Proves. Against the
Issuance and Abuse of Injunction Pro
cess in Labor Disputes.
4. A workday of not more than
Eight Hours in the twenty-four hour
day.
5. A strict recognition of not over
Eight Hours per day on all Federal
State or Municipal Work and at not
less than the prevailing Per Diem
Wage Rate of the class ot employ
ment in the vicinity where, the work
Is performed.
6. Release from employment One
Day in Seven.
7. The Abolition of the Contract
System on Public Work.
S. The Municipal Ownership of Pub
lic Utilities.
9. The Abolition of the Sweat Shop
System.
16- Sanitary Inspection of Factory,
Workshop, Mine, and Home.
11- Liability of Employers, for in
jury to body or loss of life.
Tl- The Nationalization of Tele
graph and Telephone.
13. The passage of Anti-Child Labor
Laws in States where they do not ex
1st and rigid defense of them where
L'fcey have been enacted into law.
It. Woman Suffrage coequal with
Man Suffrage.
15, The Initiative and Referendum
and the Imperative Mandate and Right
of Rl.
lb- Suitable and Plentiful Play
grounds for Children in all cities.
17. Continued agitation for the Pub
lic BarS System In all cities.
IS- Qualifications in permits to build
of all cities and towns that there shall
be BaihrooE's and Bathroom Attach
ments in all houses or compartments
used for habitation.
19. V. e favor a system of. finance
whereby money shall be issued exclu
sively by the Government, with such
regulations and restrictions as will
protect it from manipulation by the
banking interests for their own pri
vate gains.
Tha above is a partial statement of
he demands which - organised labor,
in the interest of the workers aye,
of an the people of our country
makes vpon modern society.
Higher wages, shorter- workday.
t tier labor conditions, better oomes.
better rod safer' workshops, factories,
mills, a&d mines. In a word, a better.
higher, and nobler life.
Conscious f the justice, wisdom sn 1
ncbliity of our cause, the American
Federation of Labor appeals to all
nen and women of labor to join with
us in the great movement for its
tchierenient.
More than two million wage-earners
who have reaped the advantages of
organisation and federation appeal to
their brothers and sisters of toil to
participate ia the glorious movement
with its attendant benefits.
There are nifiliated to the Ameri
can Federation of Labor 11S Interna
tional Trades Unions with their 27.
GOO Local Unions; 36 State Federa
tions; 537 City Central Bodies aai
630 Local Trade and Federal Labor
Unions having so Internationals.
We ttsvo nearly 1,000 volunteer and
special organisers as well as the offi
cers of the nsf ons and of the Amer
ican Feceratioi of Labor itself always
willing and anxious to aid their fellow
workmen to organize and In every
other way better their conditions.
For information all are invited to
write to the American Federation of
Labor headquarters at Washington,
IXC
Labor Temple Benefit. Auditorium,
April 23, 24, 25. -In the Land of Gold.
James Fulton and His Merry Company.
Tickets, SO cents.
Washington. Resolutions calling
upon congress to enact legislation in
which organized labor is interested
were adopted at a mass meeting at the
Columbia theater. The resolutions de
clare that those in congress who vote
against the measures demanded by
labor will be placed on the "blacklist"
and every effort be made to prevent
their success in the political field.
Senator Dick of Ohio, one of the
speakers, indorsed the proposition to
blacklist members of congress and po
litical aspirants who are unfriendly to
labor. Other speakers were Repre
sentatives Lloyd. Missouri; Hughes,
New Jersey; Savage. Illinois; Wilson
and Nichols. Pennsylvania, and Green.
Massachusetts, all of whom announced
their approval of President Gompers
attitude.
Philadelphia. The old Philadelphia
Typographical society (of which the
present is the direct successor) was
organized November 6, 1802. Docu
ments in the possession of the society
give reason to believe that the parent
society was preceded by a similar or
ganization called the Asylum com
pany. It is an interesting fact that
this old society was the. first formed
by printers in America and was the
forerunner of all our labor unions. It
was. and still Is, a beneficial as well as
fraternal order, and even to-day its
financial standing is unimpaired.
New York. Army officials at Fort
Totten, N. Y, have received instruc
tions from Secretary of War Taft that
hereafter 'carpenters employed at
work about the post shall be paid four
dollars instead of three dollars each
for a day's work, four dollars being
recognized by him as the "prevailing
rate of wages" here. .The action was
taken in response to a complaint from
the carpenters and joiners organiza
tion in Corona that less than the pre
vailing rate was being paid for work
at the fort.
Toledo, O. The trouble which was
threatened in marine circles over the
adoption of an open-shop policy by the
Lake Carriers' association is not likely
to materialize. While the opening of
navigation is likely to be later than
last season, the seamen say they win
not object to the open-shop rule of the
el owners so long as the latter
pay the union scale and do not dis
criminate against union men.
South Bethlehem. Pa. The Bethle
hem Steel works, running full time in
nearly aU departments, paid out S1S9.
000 In semi-monthly wages to the
workmen. This exceeds by $30,000 the
previous half month's pay, and ap
proaches within a few thousand dol
lars of the average amount paid twice
each month to its employes prior to
the beginning of the industrial depres
sion. '-
Paris. France. The building indus
try throughout Paris and the depart
ment of the Seine came to an indefi
nite stop when nearly 230.000 work
men, including masons. stonecutters
and carpenters, were forced to lay
down their tools by the employers" or
ganization, which has just decreed one
of the biggest lockouts in the history
of Europe.
Cardiff. Wales. Criticism of the
miners' eight-hour measure is given
freely at all meetings in Wales, and
even among the workingmen there are
few who give a favorable opinion.
The utmost said in its favor is that the
young and able colliers may find some
advantage, but not so those who have
passed middle life or are getting on in
years.
" Washington. In response to a let
ter of protest against the Beveridge
child labor bill. President Roosevelt
has addressed a letter to the Indiana
Manufacturers association in which
he places himself in favor of the
enactment by congress of a bill regu
lating child labor in the District of
Columbia and territories.
Atlanta, Ga. The Georgia Industrial
association, representing the cotton
mills of the state, has decided to make
a reduction of ten per cent, in wages
of operatives. It was also decided that
a curtailment of two days a week or
more, where necessary, shall be put
into effect.
Trenton, N. J. Gov. Fort was re
cently interviewed by n delegation of
anion labor leaders, who entered a
protest against the employment of
paroled convicts on construction work
at the Rahway reformatory for less
wages than the union scale demands
East St. Louis, 111- More than 150
workmen fought at the works of the
American Aluminum works, when Ar
menian. Greek and Turkish laborers
became angry because the company In
taking back its employes gave prefer
ence to Americans and negroes.
" London. Eng. The secretary of the
General Federation of Trade Unions
of Great Britain has been in the pot
teries district to try to smooth the
way for conciliation and arbitration.
The 'men. it appears, favor it; but the
employes are averse to include the
wage question at the present time.
Pittsburg. Pa. T. L. Lewis, succes
sor of John Mitchell as president of
the United Mine Workers of America,
was born in Northumberland county,
Pennsylvania, In 1363. and began his
mtwtng career at the age of seven
years as a slate picker on the break
i era at Newport-
Indianapolis. Ind. A bulletin ha
been published calling the attention of
trainmen and other employes of the
Wabash railroad to the fact that the
company will not tolerate the drinking
of whisky or any other intoxicants by
men in the company's service- The
order is signed by the division super
intendents and with the result ia the
showing made in the March bulletin
of merits and demerits i jmimil
against employes which show that 39 -per
cent, of the black marks were
given because of the use of intoxi
cants. There has been a rule on the
Wabash that employes shall abstain
from intoxicating liquors and it is the ,
opinion that men under them needed
a reminder.
Chicago. Organized labor of the
nation raised its voice in protest
against what it terms the mt-. at
titude of the United States supreme
court and. in resolutions threatening
political retaliation, demanded of con
gress that various pending biBs be
enacted into law. The meeting of pro
test in Chicago was part of a program
outlined by the American Federation
of Labor, following the decision of the
supreme court which held that labor
unions were amenable to the provi
sions of the Sherman antf-tmst law.
Similar meetings were held in all the
large cities throughout the country.
Samuel Gompers was the principal
speaker at the New York meeting.
Albany, N. Y- Practically one out.
of every three union men fa this state
was idle at the close of 1907. accordiaa
to a bulletin of the state labor department-
In New York city the percent
age was 34.2, as compared wtta 32.7
for the rest of the state. On this
question the bulletin says: -The worst
conditions at the close of the year ap
pear in the building; clothing, metal
and tobacco trades, with percentage
of idleness of 43.1, 43.C, 30.9 and 53.0
respectively. One exception to pre
vailing conditions appears in the print
ing trades, with a percentage of Idle
ness (11 1) which compares not un
favorably with previous years.'
Birmingham, Eng. Greatly disap
pointed with the recent award, which
failed to give them the advance tn
wages for which they asked, the Na
tional Society of Amalgamated Brass
workers and Metal Mechanics, at a
meeting instructed its general secre
tary to give notice to terminate the
existing arbitration arrangement be
tween that society, the Employers as
sociation and the board of trade, ft
was stated that there were ia Bfrntias
ham 6.000 or 7.6-3 brasswarkers, ex
clusive of women.
Cumberland, Md. The street rail
way strike inaugurated upon the re
fusal of the company to reinstate tv
of the men discharged on account of
gambling in the company's ear
office, was settled. The
agreed to reinstate the men upon con
dition that there would not be a repe
tition of the abuses complained of. and
that there would hereafter be a strict
enforcement of the rules of the com
pany against drinking, gambling, etc.
Chicago. Representatives of the
employes of 43 western railroads
a committee of general
who have been trying to settle their
differences over the 16-boor
law have succeeded in coming to
final agreement. The principal
tention of the railroads that they had
to pay two days wages ia nonss
cases to obey the law was settled sat
isfactorily, both sides making cones
sions.
Madisoa, Wis. The Wisconsin Fed
eration of Labor has decided to take
no part in the fight which
waged between the Prohibition
anti-Prohibition forces. This
is reached in response to a mttuwat'
that in some localities the wage work
ers are being asked to join the Wis
consin Liberty league and contribute
to its support. The executive
tee at its meeting indorsed the ;
of the Federated Trades council I
adopting an an ti-Prohibition renointfon.
Washington. That Italians, espe
cially northern Italians, are mock in
demand on the farms of the ntwithwin
states is the claim made by T. V. Pow
der! jr. chief of the division of infor
mation of the bureau of Immigration.
Pittsburg. Pa. The paddling fur
naces of the Spang J
pany's mills at Etna
tions on three eight -boar shifts,
will give employment to 209 met
have been idle two months
London, Eng. In 2CS trade
in England, with a aiamlw fillip of
639.000, there are 4LS90 inline was
of employment, equal to 6.4 per esat
A year ago the percentage of nnnu.
ployed was 3.9 per cent.
Superior. Wis. The laying down of
tools and the stopping of work by
every one of the 3,000 wni hsi of lav
bor anions affiliated with the
tural trades affiance of thin city
threatened. The walk-owl Is
as the result of tha
builders exchange for the i
Winnipeg. Manitoba. Ja
vllle. general organizer of the
chlnists brotherhood. left
to advise on the meal labor
in the Canadian Pacific railroad i
Two thousand machinist a hnHave they
are to be
at reduced pay.
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