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Indianapolis. New combinations '
and uses of materials in erecting
buildings frequently cause disputes
to jurisdiction among building
trade unions. The introduction of
metal lathing was one of the many
examples of this, and another ex
ample Is lying on the desk of Frank
Duffy, general secretary of the United
Brotherhood of Carpenters and Join
ers, at international headquarters in
this city. This particular exhibit is in
the form of a corner sawed from a
door. A casual glance at it would not
reveal anything out of the ordinary,
as it looks simply like a piece of an
oak door, but a second glance disclos
es the fact that it is hollow, made of
sheet metal and lined with asbestos.
The fact that these doors are made
of metal has caused a quesUon of
jurisdiction to arise in the east be
tween the carpenters and the sheet
metal workers' organization aa to
which organization should hang such
doors. And this is the reason that,
as an exhibit, it is reposing on the
desk of Mr. Duffy.
Springfield. Ill Senator Jones' bill
which seeks to correct certain employ
ment agency abuses and give greater
protection to applicants for work was
passed by the senate. Two years ago
a similar bill was passed by the house.
but was killed in the senate. It now
goes to the house in a form modified
from that in which it was successful
in the lower branch of the last legis
lature, but still containing the general
principles of the former measure. The
measure aims to prevent agencies
from charging fees in excess of those
allowed by law by various subterfuges,
to prevent the use of "blind" advertis
ing by such agencies, and to secure
for applicants for work a fair return
for money given the agency. The bill
provides that no person shall conduct
an employment agency unless licensed
by the state board of commissioners
of labor.
Washington. President Gompers
and the executive officers of the A. F.
of L. had a conference with President
Taft at the White House. They pre
sented a brief ouUine of the legisla
tion labor would like to have enacted.
President Taft promised consideration
of the subjects. The labor officials
especially desire to have the Sherman
anti-trust law amended with reference
to the provision that affect the right
of labor to strike and boycott; to se
cure legislation which will prevent
the abuse of the power of injunction
by courts, to secure a stricter en
forcement of the eight-hour law on all
government work and to have enacted
a government liability law which will
provide for the payment of damages
to worklngmen injured on government
work.
Chicago. The railway telegraphers
and the inters rate commerce commis
sion won an important victory in the
federal court when Judge Landis de
cided that the Santa Fe road was vio
lating the so-called nine-hour law. By
the decision the contention of the gov
ernment was upheld to the effect that
under the new law regulating the
hours of labor of telegraphers the
nine hours which they are permitted
to work in the 24 must be continuous.
The court also held that "a station op
erated continuously day and night" in
reality meant a station which was
kept open for the greater portion of
the 24 hours.
Hot Springs. Ark. Carpenters have
formed a club for the purpose of
studying craft problems.
Washington. The headquarters of
fice of the metal trades department,
American Federation of Labor, is plan
ning a national campaign of organiz
ing which is expected to result in
bringing into the department all
unions working in metal. Leaders in
all the metal trades are realising more
and more the necessity for closer affil
iation and co-operation, and this new
department of the American Federa
tion of Labor promises the medium
through which the necessary organi
zation can be accomplished.
Boston, Mass. Boston Wood, Wire
and Metal Lathers' union has ap
proved the plan of Boston Typograph
ical union that a fund of $25,000 be
raised by the Boston labor unions
and deposited in some local savings
bank as a guarantee reserve fund for
the bank to open a depar jnent of
savings bank insurance and old-age
annuities.
Chicago. An agreement has been
signed between the Iron league and
the Bridge and Structural Iron Work
ers union which clears up the last of
the wage disputes among the building
trades. The iron-workers, who were
receiving $4.80 a day, have been grant
ed $5 a day. effective May 1.
New York. An unusually large
number of the labor organizations
throughout the country toolr part in
the observance of labor's memorial
Sunday, which this year came Sunday,
May 9.
Boston. Last week one local em
ployer, who has previously employed
only nonunion men, applied to Boston
Coopers' union. No. 58, for men and
signed an ironclad union agreement.
Washington. According to the re
port of the United States commission
er of labor, women in buying for the
Philadelphia. John Mitchell, sec
ond vice-president of the A. F. of L.
and ex-president of the United Mine
Workers union, addressed the Penn
sylvania legislature on trade union
ism. He said that wage agreements
had to be made collectively by wage
earners, and quoted President Taft'9
views on that question in support. A
strike is a method of bargaining, Mr.
Mitchell said, quoting Abraham Lin
coln's speech at Hartford in i860 om
that phase. Mr. Mitchell told in de
tail of the benefits secured by or
ganized labor for the promotion of
health, of the decrease of deaths
from consumption where unions exist
ed and the increase of deaths among
non-union workers. That children are
compelled to work while, strong men
chafe in Idleness was an especial
curse, he declared, and advised the
regulation of child labor by the legis
lature. Indianapolis, Ind. The various local
unions of the Bricklayers' and Ma
sons' International union throughout
the country began voting the first of
the month on a proposition to estab
lish the initiative and referendum sys
tem. The votes are to be received at
international headquarters in this city
not later than June 1, and If the propo
sition is carried it is to go into effect
July 1. It will take two-thirds of the
votes cast to adopt this proposition,
and there is a feeling among those
well versed in the matter that it will
not carry. The proposed system would
provide for the nomination and elec
tion of officers by referendum, instead
of In convention as at present, and
would also provide for the initiative
and referendum for new laws and
changes in the constitution.
Wilmington, Del. To alleviate the
hardships caused in many cases by
the enforcement of the child labor
laws in Delaware, the Consumers'
league has established scholarship
funds as a trial remedy. Where a
family depends on the earnings of a
child, and that child is obliged by
law to discontinue work and attend
school, the league plans to give the
family a stated sum each month equal
to the child's earnings until such time
as the boy or girl can return to work.
New York. A proposition to estab
lish a death benefit of $50 In the
Coopers' International union, recently
submitted to the subordinate unions
for referendum vote, has been car
ried by a vote of 1,152 to 1,041. The
general executive board is now pre
paring rules for the distribution of
such benefits.
Fort Smith, Ark. Judge J. V. Row
land issued an unusual order here
when, in appointing R. A. Young re
ceiver for the Hiawatha Smokeless
Coal Company of Coaldale, Ark., he di
rected that the receiver employ only
union men in the mine or sell it.
Judge Bourland presides over the
chancery court, and at a banquet of
the Arkansas Federation of Labor
here a few months ago said he never
would grant an injunction against a
labor union in the interests of a corpo
ration.
Indianapolis. As a result of the vis
it of delegates to the last session of
the American Federation of Labor to
the Union Printers" home, many oth
er trades have the matter of estab
lishing homes under serious consid
eration, and the present year will
doubtless see plans matured for still
other establishments on the lines laid
down by the pioneer Union Printers"
home.
Washington. In view of the fact
that in the east a very large number
of teamsters have been displaced by
chauffeurs who run freight autos that
are used in the transportation of mer
chandise formerly carried on trucks,
the International Brotherhood of
Teamsters has made application to the
A. F. of L. to change its charter so as
to admit chauffeurs, also for permis
sion to change the name of the or
ganization to International Brother
hood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs and
Helpers.
Indianapolis, Ind. Preparations are
under way for the. proper celebration
of the silver jubilee of the Indiana
State Federation of Labor. The jubi
lee will at the twenty-fifth annual
convention of the organization, which
will be held in South Bend, beginning
the last Tuesday in September, and
continuing three days.
Chicago. An increase In wages ha9
been given to the hodcarriers and
building laborers. At a meeting of a
committee of the union and the Mas-;
ons and Builders association, a three
years agreement was signed up to run
from July 1 at a raise from $3.80 to
$3 a day. The laborers asked for
$3.20 a day.
Berlin, Germany. During a recent
year the German labor exchanges
found situations for 1,250.000 persons.
Portland, Ore. There have been no
strikes in this city for the past four
years.
Boston, Mass. Boston C. L. U., met
al trade section, has decided to take
steps to see if the laws regarding
blowers in metal shops and the foun
dry sanitary law can be enforced.
San Francisco. The bill prohibit
ing any one not entitled to do so from
wearing a button of a labor union or
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