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Week of Monday, March 8
GEO. S. VAN
And His Imperial Minstrel Co.
THOS. H. INCE
And His Plapers in "Wise Mike"
CAPTAIN TREATS
Performing Seals and Sea Lions.
PRIMROSE QUARTEETE
The Famous Harmony. Singers
Billy Noble and Jeanne Brooks
In Songs and Smart Sayings
J. B. Leonard & Susie M. Fulton
In "Mulligan'd Masquerade"
FINN & FORD
Premier Dancers
Mat Daily Except Monday 15 end 25c
Every Night Prices 15, 25, 35 and 50c
Saut Ste. Marie, Mich. The open
hearth furnaces of the Algola Steel
Company at the Canada Soo are to be
extended this year, according to an
nouncement made by Manager Franz
of the Lake Superior corporation. Oth
er improvements are to follow. A
semi-official report says that new blast
furnaces will be erected and also a
structural steel plant as the; result of
an investment by English capitalists,
who intend to make the Soo plant the
biggest In Canada. It is also learned
that the so-called bridge trust will in
vade the Canadian field on a large
scale and erect a plant as soon as it
can get structural steel. From this
plant it intends all the Canadian busi
ness shall be handled.
Peoria, 111. Indorsing the clause in
Secretary Hayes' report recommend
ing that the "strike fund" be re-estab-,
lished and regretting that surety com
panies were made to stand losses due
to laxity in conducting affairs by of
ficers of local unions were the prin
cipal features of the report of the
committee on officers' reports sub
mitted before the United Mine Work
ers of Illinois in convention here. It
was recommended that surety com
panies hereafter will not be asked to
go bond for secretaries and treasurers
of local unions, but that these officers
should be required to give bonds
signed by persons in good standing in
the near neighborhood where office
holders reside.
Cleveland, O. Forty organizers
have been appointed by ; President
Lewis of the Ohio Federation of Labor
to take the field in the near future to
bring the working people within the
pale of unionism. According to Secre
tary Harry D. Thomas there will be
more organizers selected and an ag
gressive campaign of education and or
ganization .will be waged. "We are
receiving information daily," said Mr
Thomas, "that leads, us to believe that
the year 1909 will be one of the great
est in the country's history in the mat
ter of organizing the working people."
Boston, Mass. B. & M. R. R. sys
tem board of adjustment of the lodges
of the Brotherhood of Railroad Clerks
decided to request the B. & M. road
officials to enter into an agreement
iWith the clerks on lines similar to
the arbitration and adjustment agree
ments existing with other big rail
road organizations. The clerks' broth
erhood is a comparatively new one
and it never has asked for or had an
agreement with the road. The clerks
are now almost as weli organized on
every section of the system as are the
men of the train service branches.
Hazleton, Pa. The organizers of
the United Mine Workers arranged for
meetings in every town of the Lehigh
field to stir up sentiment among the
men. The same activity will be con
tinued and it is expected that by
the time the agreement between the
operators and miners expires the ma
jority of the workers will have become
reunited to the union.
New York. E. H. Gary, chairman of
the United States Steel Corporation,
when asked for confirmation or (te
nia' of the published announcement
that there would be a reduction in the
wages of steel and iron workers before
May 1, said: "The statements are in
accurate. The United States Steel
Corporation has never considered such
a thing." 1
Washington. The National Civic
Federation announces that George W.
Perkins had accepted the chairman
ship of a commission now being or
ganized by that body to make a thor
ough study of industrial insurance, in
cluding compensation for wage-earners
in the form of sick, accident, old
age and death benefits.
New York. The establishment of
a colony for aged, infirm, sick or dis
abled members of the Brotherhood of
Painters, Decorators and Paperhang-
ers of America is the novel plan
which has been started by members
of that organization all over the coun
try. A thousand acres of land has
been obtained in Moore county, N.
C, for the establishment of the home,
and it is now proposed to establish a
colony there with light manufacturing
industries, which will make the home
self-sustaining.
St. Paul, Minn. Arrangements are
being made by the organization com
mittee of the St. Paul Trades Assem
bly for the formation of a building
trades council in that city. The pro
posed new organization will be formed
along the lines laid down by the build
ing trades department of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor, under whose
banner the new central body will en
list.
Boston, Mass. All the Boston steam
engineers' unions last week reiterated
their opposition to the efforts to have
the present state boiler rules and
laws changed. They are "not half stiff
enough now," the engineers say.
London, Eng. Ten thousand Scot
tish colliers and workmen have al
ready been thrown out of work in con
sequence of the action of the Scottish
railway companies, who imposed a de
murrage charge of one shilling six
pence a day for each wagon left at
their colliery Bidings, and it is esti
mated that 5,000 more men will be
paid off. - v- '
Albany, N. Y. Two bills, designed
to regulate the loaning of money on
wages to be earned in the future and
to curtail the operations of so-called
"lean sharks," are pending in the as
sembly. . ''
Chicago. Martin B. ("Skinny")
Madden, president of the Associated
Building Trades of Chicago. and Cook
County, and M. J. Boyle, business
agent of Electrical Workers' union No.
134, were indicted by the grand jury
on charges of conspiracy and extor
tion. The indictments were returned
at 5:30 o'clock in Judge Freeman's
court and Immediately capiases were
issued for the arrest of the labor lead
ers. Bail in each case was fixed at
? 10,000. Two separate indictments
were returned against each of the
men, one on extorting $1,000 from H.
P. Nelson of the Nelson Piano Com
pany for calling off a strike on his fac
tory, and the other for extorting from
Joseph Klicka $700 under similar circumstances.
Oakland, Cal. It is not illegal for a
union labor organization to picket a
place of business that has been de
clared "unfair," if the picketing is
done In a peaceable manner, according
to the decision of Judge Ellsworth,
given here in the case of Joseph Davis,
a local restaurant man, against the
Cooks' and Waiters' alliance. Because
the union posted two pickets in front of
his place of business the restaurant
man declared that he had suffered a
loss of $250. The court admitted the
loss, but contended, inasmuch as the
union had not brought it about by un
lawful means, damages could not be
imposed.
Pittsburg, Pa. As a result of the
cut in prices of steel decided upon at
the meeting in New York, the second
lowering of prices within the last nine
months, there is to be a general re
duction in the wages of the vast army
of men employed in the big steel mills
all over the country, according to
statements made by well known man
ufacturers. Sever Pittsburg steel
makers stated positively that the sec
ond reduction in prices would result
in a reduction in the wages of the em
ployes. Others are of the same opin
ion, although they refuse to make any
statement for publication.
Peoria. 111. The resolution brought
in by a special committee on political
action, denying official assistance of
the United Mine Workers of Illinois
to members who should become po
litical candidates for state offices, was
almost unanimously adopted here. The
result is considered by socialistic
members a victory for their cause. Re
tiring President John Walker, the new
president, Duncan McDonald, and Sec
retary Frank Hayes urged the dele
gates to continue political and finan
cial assistance, after announcing their
pride in being members of the Socia
listic party.
Portland, Ore. A bill that has been
presented before the Oregon legisla
ture, providing for the protection and
safety of persons engaged in work on
buildings, bridges, etc., is commented
on editorially in the Bridgemen's Mag
azine, the official organ of the Interna
tional Association of Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers. In speak
ing of the need of suitable legis
lation, the editorial says- that "Owing
to the extreme hazard surrounding our
employment any protective measure,
in the way of legislation or attempted
legislation, should receive our hearty
and unqualified support."
Brussels, Belgium. An industrial
innovation that .is going to attract
world-wide attention has Just been in
troduced in Belgium. In the province
of Brabant, which numbers consider
able more than a million population,
the legislature has enacted a law not
only designating the minimum salar
ies that must be paid certain classes
of workers, but also providing for the
penalizing of employers who disregard
the wage statute.
New York. The stokers of the
Hamburg-American Steamship Com
pany are threatening a general strike,
They have already gone out on the
Prince Eitel Frederick. The German
Seamen's union, after a special meet
ing, issued the following statement:
"Further attempts on the, part of the
Hamburg-American Steamship Com
pany to reduce the wages of the stok
ers will mean a general strike of the
members of the International Federa
tion of German Seamen employed on
the ships of this company."
Washington. The average wage of
telegraph operators decreased during
the last two years and during the year
1908, as compared with the year 1903.
This is the salient fact developed in a
report on the telegraph business trans
mitted to the senate by Dr., Charles P.
Neill, commissioner of labor, in re
sponse to a resolution of that body
adopted last May. The report indi
cates that messages are classified and
that certain classes of business have
preference over others.
Minneapolis, Minn. A branch of
the American Aassociation for Labor
Legislation has been formed in this
city.
Winnipeg, Man. The farmers of the
Moose Jaw district have passed a res
olution requesting the Central Grain
Growers' association to place a cap
able man in the field to organize Sas
katchewan, Canada, farmers into a
permanent society or association with
a strong life membership fund at its
back.
London, Eng. Lack of proper ap
prenticeship system for training boys
14 to 20 years of age in the different
trades is widely held in England to be
responsible in a large degree for the
"casual labor," lack of employment
and poverty of thousands.
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