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T1n& Orpheum Circuit
Week of Monday, February 8
Qus Edwards' Blonde Typewriters
With Arthur Conrad in a Musical Comedy,
'A Picnic for One."
Lillian Wright and Gordon Boys
Vocalists and Dancing Wonders.
M. Van Bergen and Marion Kresky
In "Where Hearts Beat True."
Fred Lewis and Martin Chapin
Comedy Singing, Dancing, Talking.
Anita Primrose
English Music Hall Artist.
Piquo
Amusing and Amazing Gymnast,
Austin Brothers
"The American Beauties" Extra Added Feature.
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lndiaanpolis, Ind. As a first step to
placing the entire 300,000 organized
coal miners of all the anthracite and
bituminous" fields of the United States
and Canada behind the anthracite
miners' eigLt hour demands the con
vention declared for the appointment
of a special scale committee, which
will present the demands of the an
thracite miners to ine national con
vention for discussion and ratifica
tion. After being indorsed by the na
tional convention this committee will
then be ready to ask the anthracite
operators for a conference. The re
quest for a conference will be in the
name of the national organization and
the demands will be backed by the
convention. The demands will be
those of 300,000 men instead of only
the organized workers of the anthra
cite field.
Morgantown, W. Va. Glass workers
report that since the strike of the win
dow glass employes at the W. R. Jones
factory here, the majority of the Bel
gian and Swede workers have signed
to go to Sistersville, V. Va., where
they will work for a new company
that has rented the Sistersville fac
tory, and will operate under the name
of the Independent Window Glass
Company. This new move is said to
be something of a co-operative affair,
and while the wage scale of the Win
dow Glass Workers' association had
been signed, a private agreement ex
ists, it is said, that will give the men
$15 a week market money, while the
balance of their pay goes into stock in
the company. They also agree to make
a certain number of boxes of glass
each week without remuneration.
Indianapolis, Ind. The United Mine
.Workers appointed a special commit
tee to confer with the anthracite op
erators regarding a wage scale.' The
scale under which the miners are now
working was made by a commission
that grew out of a recommendation
made by President Roosevelt some
years ago, and expires April 1. The
miners will ask the anthracite opera
tors for a conference and attempt to
agree upon a new scale before the
present one expires.
Cleveland, O. According to a state
ment made by P. B. Smith, fleet en
gineer of the Pittsburg Steamship
Company, he has all the engineers
needed for his fleet signed for next
season. He also said that he could
have got many more while in Detroit,
had he needed them. On the other
hand, the local officers of the M. E. B.
A. declare that 95 per cent, of the
members have taken a determined
stand not to work under the contract
system.
New York. At the last session of
the legislature, at Albany, the proposi
tion looking to the establishment of an
old-age pemlii.i system was' intro
duced, but did not meet with favor
able consideration, owing to the fact
that such measure involved an annual
payment of over $20,000,000. At the
coming session, however, a bill em
bodying the same general principles of
old-age pensions "is likely to be re
introduced, it is said.
Pittsburg, Pa. The seventh annual
report of the Carnegie relief fund, ap
plicable to the employes of the Car
negie Steel Company and its nine con
stituent companies, showing opera
tions for 1908, was made public here.
Benefits for the year totaled $210,
423.70, as follows: Accident benefits,
$20,307.70; death benefits, $109,023, and
pension allowances,. $81,093.
Boston, Mass. About 5,000 opera
tives employed in the subsidiary fac
tories of the United States Rubber
Company, and by one or two smaller
concerns, will be idle during the great
er part of February, according to no
tices which have been posted at vari
ous plants. ' The curtailment is due to
an accumulation of unsold stock, a
condition largely caused by fine weath
er in November, December and the
early part of this month. -
Indianapolis, Ind. The mine : work
ers" convention, which received Mr.
Mitchell with the greatest enthusiasm.
voted him $2,500 to help him fight
against execution of the Jail sen
tence. Afterward a telegram was sent
to Mr. Gompers announcing this fact
and . saying: "Stay in the game,
Three hundred thousand black dia
mond artists, are backing you."
Washington. On the charges filed
with him by the American Federation
of Musicians, accusing amusement
managers' of violating the alien labor
law. President Roosevelt has request
ed that Secretary Straus of the de
partment of commerce ' and labor in
vestigate and make 'a full report
thereon.
Xew York. At the last meeting of
the Central Federated union (Manhat
tan) it was decided to ask the various
central labor bodies of the other bor
oughs to co-operate in a request
that Mayor McClellan appoint a
labor representative to the board
.of education from each of such
borough organizations.
Xew York. It is alleged that the
railroads of New York state will fight
the semi-monthly pay bill which was
passed last session of the legislature,
Their intention is said to be to carry
it to the courts and have the law de
clared unconstitutional.
Victoria, N. S. W. There appears
to be the prospect of trouble ahead for
the South Wales Miners' federation, as
the outcome of the decision of the
court of appeals in the trade union
levies 'case, which has created much
interest among the anti-Socialist mi
nority of the Welsh miners, and the
conservative miners have already de
cided to issue a claim against the
union for the return of all money
paid by them in support of the miners'
members of parliament. It is ex
pected that the action will take the
form of a test case, the sum being
over $40,000.
Indianapolis, Ind. Stirred by the
recommendation in the report of Sec
retary Ryan that a national labor
party be organized, many of the lead
ers of the United Mine Workers of
America, in their twentieth annual
convention, have come out as open ad
vocates of this policy. The decision
of Judge Wright in sentencing Mitch
ell, Morrison and Gompers, the remis
sion of the Standard Oil Company's
fine, and the result of the last na
tional election, are said to be the
causes for the intended bolt from the
old political organizations.
Chicago. Trouble which may re
sult in the complete paralysis of ship
ping on the lakes when traffic opens
on May 1 is threatened by action of
the Lake Seamen's union. Union
officials urged every member of the
big organization to .stand by it, and
hinted that the long deferred struggle
with the shipping organization will be
gin when the traffic season opens. If
such is the case it will mean that
something like 12,000 men will be
thrown out of work, and that millions
of dollars' worth of shipping will be
brought to a standstill.
Detroit, Mich. A renewed declara
tion for the open shop principle in re
gard to the employment of labor on
the ships of the great lakes, the an
nouncement that $60,000,000 worth of
vessel tonnage out of a total of $100,
000,000 on the lakes had signed the
mutual insurance agreement issued
here, and the disclosing of a move
ment to make the projected Living
stone channel in the lower Detroit
river 600 feet wide, instead of 300
feet, were features of the annual con
vention of the Lake Carriers' associa
tion. '
Washington. President Samuel
Gompers, Vice-Presidfent John Mitch
ell and Secretary Frank Morrison of
the American Federation of Labor,
who were recently adjudged in con
tempt of court and sentenced to terms
of imprisonment in the District of Co
lumbia jail, were ordered by Justice
Wright of the district supreme court
to pay the costs incurred in the pro
ceedings which resulted in the sen
tence for contempt. The costs aggre
gate about $1,500.
Manila, The launchmen and lighter
men of Manila harbor, have struck for
higher wages and shorter hours. They
also demand various other concessions
from ship owners. Shipping has been
crippled. There is a possibility of
the trouble extending to the coast.
Extra police precautions have .' pre
vented any disorder..
Milwaukee, Wis. Victor Berger
was named chairman of a committee
which will draft a resolution request
ing the three convicted officials of the
American Federation of Labor not to
seek clemency from President Roose
velt in the form of a pardon in the
event of their being sent to jail,
New York. Two women have been
admitted to membership in the New
York Central Labor union Miss Alice
O'Rouvke, representing the Badge,
Banner and Regalia Makers' union,
and Miss Nellie Curley, representing
the Bookkeepers' and Accountants'
union. They axe the first women who
have been admitted as delegates in
either of the central bodies in Brook
lyn or Manhattan.
Indianapolis, Ind. The annual re
port of William Dodson as national
secretary of the Bricklayers' and Ma
sons' -International union' for the
year ending November 30, 1908 shows
that the total number of local unions
of the international, December 1, 1907,
was 1,014, and that this had been in
creased to 1,026.
Washington. Now that the Central
Labor union has declared for suf
frage in the District of Columbia, it is
proposed by certain .leaders among the
workingmen that a suffrage league
be formed here.
Woonsocket, R. I. The Millville
rubber boot mill of the Woonsocket
Rubber Company at Millville, Mass.,
employing 700 operatives, closed for
four weeks.
Sterling, 111. The Royal Trust
Company of Chicago, which was
named as the receiver of the Illinois
Straw Products Company of this city,
announces that it will reopen the
plant and operate at full capacity.
Waco, Tex. A strong organization
has been formed to work for the initia
tive and referendum in the next legis
lature. This organization has the sup
port of the farmers' unions, as well as
the trade unions.
New York. About eight per cect.
of the members of the International
Fur Workers are unemployed at this
time.
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