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GENERAL MENTION.
Labor News Culled by Hustle and Scis
sorsMostly Scissors.
The American Federation of Musi
cians is reported to be in unusually
fine condition. Its membership is now
approximately 400,000, and new unions
are being formed everywhere.
The Oakland (Cal.) Trades Council
has under consideration plans for the
erection of a building trades temple
to cost about $10C,000.
A new plan to raise money for the
building of a labor temple in St. Loui3
has been indorsed by the General Cen
tral Trades and Labor Union there.
The difference between the Freight
Handlers and the Railway Clerks have
been settled, and the latter organiza
tion has been admitted to the Amer
ican Federation of Labor.
A bill has passed both houses in
Oklahoma which provides for a peni-
tentiary term for any employer who
refuses work to an employe on ac
count of the latter belonging to a
labor union. The bill also prohibits
Pinkerton detectives from working in
the state.
Lowell, Mass. A number of new
unions are being organized in Lowell.
London, Eng. There are signs of a
revival in the lead and slate industries
of Wales.
Berlin. No one in Saxony is al-
lowed to shoe horses unless he has
passed a public examination and is
duly qualified.
Indianapolis. Typographical unions
have been formed in the colonies of
Barbadoes, British Guiana and Trin
idad. Glasgow, Scotland. A dispute hav
ing arisen in the plumbing trade, the
master plumbers decided to issue no
tices of a lockout.
Elmira, N. Y. The Elmira Heights
rolling mills, which have been idle
nearly two years, started fires . with
large orders ahead.
New . York. For strike benefits
1118,332.70 was paid out by the United
Brewery Workmer or America for tns
two years ending August 13.
Washington. The trades in the
building industry of Jamaica, West
Indies, are organizing into unions af
filiated with the American Federation
of Labor.
London, Eng. The General Federa
tion of Trades Unions has issued a
manifesto declaring that there are
1,500,000 unemployed in the United
Kingdom, with 7,500,000 suffering de
pendents. The federation recommends
the creation of a minister of labor
rnd a permanent "unemployment''
board, and that all members of labor
unions refuse to work overtime.
San Francisco. A union labor club
was formed at the last meeting ot
the laundry workers.
London, Eng. After being out on
strike for some weeks, the Kilton,
north of England, ironstone miners
have resumed work on the terms that
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were offered to them before they
ceased work. The whole matter is
to be submitted to arbitration.
Edinburgh, Scotland. Coopers, who
are, on strike, are to ask trade union
ists the world over to boycott the
beer of the brewers who will not agree
to the demands of strikers.
London,' Eng. In several London
printing establishments women are
employed as compositors, folders, nu
merical printers, perforators, wire
stitchers, and book sewers.
Sedalia, Mo. Effective November 2,
all section men employed on the Mis
souri Pacific-Iron Mountain system,
will receive an increase in wages ot
from $1.25 to $1.35 a day.
Memphis. An industrial' school for
this city and Shelby county, Tennes
see, is the probable outcome of a
movement, which has been, set on foot
by the builders' exchange of Memphis.
Newark, N. J. The 5,000 operatives
in two great thread mills in this city
were notified that full time work will
be resumed at once. Since last April
the mill have been running on part
time.
Madrid. It is reported that the cop
per miners in the Rio Tinto district
will go on strike. Detachments of
cavalry and infantry and gendarmes
have left Huelva for the1 district to
maintain order. ;
Manchester, Eng. At, a meeting
here of the representatives of the
cotton strikers it was decided to ask
the employers to meet the representa
tives with a view to settlement of the
existing dispute.
Detroit, Mich. The Burroughs Add
ing Machine company announces that
it will at once start all its depart
ments on full time, 54 hours a week.
Of late most of the men have been
getting in only 48 hours.
Fort Wayne, Ind. The big Penn
sylvania shops began to work 75 hours
a week to get ready for the rush of
trailic that is expected to make a
car shortage before another month.
In addition, over 100 men were added
to the pay-roll. The force had been
working only 55 hours a week. Or
ders were also issued increasing the
hours in the Wabash shops to 65 a
week.
prganized labor of Norfolk, Va.,
have started a campaign for an eight
hour workday on city work. May
the effort win.
The Bakers and Confectioners Inter
national Union has made arrange
ments to maintain two organizers in
Philadelphia and one in St. Louis.
The Italian government has pre
sented a bill prohibiting bakers from
working at night and establishing a
heavy fine in case of infraction which
will go to the fund for incapacitated
and aged workmen.
Under the new pension law of the
International Typographical Union 413
members are drawing $4 per week.
It is estimated that there are somo
600 entitled to this pension, and when
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LINCOLN, NED.
Hills
Flour
these are all properly registered it
will mean an outlay of about $124,800
a year.
Any cigar made in Lincoln is union
made and the best cigars for the
money on the market.
The Modern Woodman sanitarium,
now in process of erection at Colorado
Springs, is being erected under' non
union conditions. The union men
when pay dues to the Modern Wood
men ought to drop Head Consul Tal
bot a few warm lines. '
Members of the Ancient. Order ' of
United Workmen in Nebraska, who
are' also union men, may be interested
in knowing that printing done for
their order is done in non-union print
shop. . .
Frank Smith has returned tot Lin
coln from Oklahoma City and Is en
gaged in doing' some soliciting for a
local printery.
HE WROTE TO ROOSEVELT.
And As ' a Result Patrick M. , Grace
Lost His Union Office.
Binghaupton, N. Y. Dec. S. At the
wannest meeting in the history of
Parlor City, lodge, Brotherhood of Rail
way Trainmen, Baggagemaster Pat
rick M. Grace, who for twelve years
bad been elected without opposition
ais financier of the lodge, was turned
down as the direct result of the letter
he wrote to President Roosevelt dur
A SUIT or OVEnGOAT Cida to Order Fcr
From Sheeps Back to Your Beck
ISSUED DY AUTHORITY OF
World's
Qroatost
Tailors
ing the campaign, asking the president
to state exactly what was Mr. Taf t's
stand on organized labor. It was in
reply to Mr.- Grace's, letter that: Mr.
Roosevelt wrote one of his "famous"
open letters explaining Taft's position
ob labor matters. . - ;' ' !;"..,
, Grace wrote hu letter to the presi
dent on stationery bearing .the head
lug of the Parlor '.City lodge, aod in
it he used the expression "What we
wish to know." . Many members of the
order claim that the use of the- Word
"we" on paper f the order gave the
impression that the letter was writ
ten for the lodge.
Feeling: ram high during the- meet
ing with wild gesticulation and heated
and loud arguments. ,
PREACHERS FORM A UNION.
The Protestant ministers-o -Boston
V.ftm AtMniovwl n iiniin blnkv tfsi1
union lines. They will adopt a .scale
of wages, and are even discussing the
appointment of a business agent.
Low wages j is responsible for this
union. Jewelry Worker."
PLUM TO THE LABOR WORLD.
The appointment of John D. Pringle
to the office of appraiser of mere!
dlse at Pittsburg by President Roose
velt, shows how the editor , of the
Labor World greased his runners pre
vious to election." He supported Taft.
Erie (Pa.) Labor Journal. 1
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