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AMBASSADOR TO RUSSIA
William Woodville Rockhill. who has been
selected by President Taft for the post of am
bassador to St. Petersburg, is the present min
ister to China. He has won laurels in the diplo
matic serrica of the country under Tarious ad
ministrations, and his coming promotion SOI be
generally approved.
Born In Philadelphia. Mr. Rockhill was edu
cated at the noted St. Cyr Military college in
France, and on his graduation was appointed
sub-lieutenant of the Legion Etrangere. for duty
in Algiers. He entered the American diplo
matic service in 1S84, when he was made sec
ond secretary of the Chinese legation. He
served there and in Korea until he resigned
four years later to undertake his journeys of
scientific exploration in Mongolia and Tibet for
the Smithsonian institute.
He has been third and first assistant secretary of state, minister to
Greece. Roumania and Servia. director of the bureau of the American repub-
acsan
the Boxer troubl
Besides being a diplomat and an explorer. Rockhill is a writer of interest
ing sort, and has six or eight volumes of excellent character to his credit.
For the most part these deal with the people, manners, customs and history
of the least known Asiatic lands.
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-PRESIDENT" LEE NOW.
W. U. Ijce, Cleveland, was elected
president of the Brotherhood of Rail
way Trainmen. The title is changed
frcTU axaad master.
CHOOSE JACKSONVILLE.
The Order of Railway Conductors
at their recent convention in Boston
chose Jacksonville. F1l. as the plac
for the next biennial convention.
Milwaukee, Wis. '"The general ten
ency to-day is to form a closer rela
tionship between employer and em
ployes and prevent strikes," said Na
tional Organizer Kennedy of the
plumbers. "There is absolutely no
trouble which can not be settled. It
has been proven again and again that
both sides can meet in peaceful con
Terence and adjust their differences
without the men being forced to go
pn strike to gain their end. In all of
the working and wage agreements
piade by the plumbers, wherever pos
sible, it Is stipulated that whenever
differences arise committees from
both parties should meet and adjust
them. We have found this to be
beneficial to the employers and to the
men."
East St Louis. 111. Judge Francis
M. Wright of the United States dis
trict court rendered a decision in
which the constitutionality of the em
ployers' liability act was upheld. The
question arose in a suit against the
Terminal Railroad associatic . and at
torneys for the defendant sa - ;he mat
ter will be fought out to the supreme
court of the United States. The de
cision is regarded by railroad at
torneys and claimants for personal
injury damages as important, as it
eliminates the "fellow servant," "con
tributory negligence" and "assumed
risk" pleas of the defense.
Philadelphia. Four hundred eleva
tor constructors went on strike in this
city for shorter hours. The workers
demand a half-holiday on Saturdays,
thus making the week consist of 44
ours. Instead of 48 as at present.
Chicago. Work has been begun on
the construction of 560 . by-product
coke ovens for the Indiana Steel Com
pany at Gary. Ind. More will be add
ed later. These ovens will supply ten
blast furnaces with fuel and will con
sume 7,000 tons or coal aaiiy. une
Gary coking plant will take the place
pf those to have been built at Filbert,
Ralph and Sarah, Pa.
Washington. A mass-meeting of
nearly all of the 2,400 women em
ployed in the bureau of engraving and
printing in this city was held to pro
test against the published statement
that the National Civic Federation,
through its women members, had ap
pointed a committee to investigate the
morality of the employes of the execu
.Uve departments in Washington, and
that the committee had determined to
demand the dismissal of at least SO
women employed in the bureau.
Milwaukee, Wis. The Federated
Trades Council called a general strike
of the building trades craft in Mil
waukee breweries, affecting about 300
men. nearly all the breweries laid
oft their carpenters, declaring they
had not work enough to keep them
employed. T- en affected are elec
tricians, mil' rights, painters and
some carpenters. A refusal to sign a
new wage scale brought about the
trouble.
Washington. An organization that.
has become a part of the American
Federation of Labor has been estab
lished In Washington. The new body
is composed of representatives from
all organizations that have a label.
and the purpose is to promote the
union label products in all parts of
the United States.
New York. The biennial session of
the international upholsters' bodywill
be held in this city in July. The dele
gates from the' local union will be in
structed to try to obtain the conven
tion of 1911 for San Francisco. Cal.
Boston. There was a decided fall
ing off in 1908 in labor strikes, and
the record for arbitrations was made
that year, according to the report of
the Massachusetts state board of arbi
tration and conciliation sent to the
legislature recently. Applications for
the adjustment of 140 controversies
were considered, mutual adjustments
were made in 13 cases, 24 were pend
ing and 113 decisions were rendered.
Chicago. A concerted effort is now
being made to bring the Truck Driv
ers union back to life. At the time of
the great teamsters strike In 1905 it
had 6,700 members. After the strike
the membership dwindled to almost
nothing. It is now back to 2.500 and
new members are joining at the rate
of 50 to 75 a week. A new scale will
be demanded when the present agree
ment expires next faU.
Pittsburg, Pa. Settlement of all
difficulties between the Pittsburg
Street Railways Company and its 2.800
employes was made when the vote of
the latter was announced. The vote
was almost unanimous for settlement.
The demand of the men for more pay
was withdrawn, but their request for
a better arrangment of working hours
was granted.
Glasgow. Scotland. Three Kinross
miners were each fined ten dollars
or 30 days' imprisonment for having
matches in their possession in a col
liery.
Washington. Secretary Morrison
will have a lebel chart printed in
pamphlet form, giving a reproduction
of the Tarious union labels indorsed by
the Federation of Labor.
South Memphis. Tenn. Meat cut
ters In this city are .about to be or-.
ganixed.
Minneapolis. Miss. A local of rail
way steamfitters and helpers has been
organized. '
Washington. Secretary Frank Mor
rison of the American Federation of
Labor issued a statement announcing
that 2,000,000 citizens of the United
States are out of work. Mr. Morrison
declared this to be a conservative es
timate. He said that these were the
figures agreed upon at an informal
conference of the officers of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor, held at head
quarters, and in which President Gom
pers participated. This statement, he
said, was the consensus of most care
ful estimates made by men who are
thoroughly familiar with conditions of
employment throughout the United
States.
Baltimore. Md. The striking ma
chinists of the Baltimore & Ohio rail
road at the Mount Clare shops here, at
a meeting voted to seek a conference
with Vice-President George L. Potter
of the railroad in an endeavor to set
tie the differences between the strikers
and the company. The chief point at
issue -is the establishment of the
piece work system at the erecting
shop at Mount Clare, which the men
oppose. An extension of the strike to
other shops of the company is threat
ened by the men if their demands are
not granted.
Chicago. Work has been begun by
the Pullman Company on a $3,000,000
improvement of the car shops at Pull
man, which will, make them the larg
est car construction plant in one unit
in the world. The expenditure was de
cided upon by the board recenUy in
the belief that by the time the addi
tions to ' the works are completed
which will be in September, the com
pany will be able to place the entire
output of between 40,000 and 50,000
freight and passenger cars a year.
New York. The plan of the wom
en's auxiliaries has been tried and
found practicable.' A little over a year
ago the Label Council of Women's
Auxiliaries of Greater New York was
formed with four auxiliaries. To-day
there are 12, with two new ones in
process of formation. These auxiliaries
while yet small in individual member
ship, because the movement is a new
one, have proved wonderfully effective
in their work.
Detroit The strike of lake seamen,
marine firemen, cooks and stewards
will be a "nonresistance" conflict so
far as physical force is concerned, ac
cording to plans announced by General
Secretary Victor A. Olander of . the
Lake Seamen's union. In his strike
report to the Chicago Federation of
Labor he emphasized particularly that
the union will tolerate no violence on
the part of the strikers.
Wilkesbarre, Pa. Because of the
large amount of coal on hand, due to
the overproduction during the winter,
several of the larger mining compan
ies issued orders suspending work at
their washeries for an indefinite
period. The operators also expect to
close down several of their collieries
within two weeks. The prediction is
for a dull summer in the anthracite
mining region.
Louisville, Ky. Arthur Brown of
Louisville, general foreman ot the
boiler department in the Louisville &
Nashville shops, was elected president
of the International Boiler Makers' as
sociation. Cincinnati won over Ni
agara Falls for the next meeting place
by a close vote. A. N. Lucas, Mil
waukee, is first vice-president; Harry
D. Vought, secretary, and Frank Gary,
treasurer.
Chicago. In 1864 the Cigar Makers
International union was established.
Boston. Boston ladies tailors and
dressmakers recently established
rule that no member could work over
time while there were members unem
ployed. Several members violated the
rule. Recently they made their
peace with the union by paying to
the men and women unemployed at
the time of the' violation the full
amounts they had received for all over.
time work.
Milwaukee. Wis. A meeting of
plumbers, representing all of the
anions in the state, will be held here
the first Sunday in August to perfect
a state organization of plumbers. Na
tional Organizer Kennedy will leave
Milwaukee In a few days to visit all
of the unions in the state and urge
them to send representatives to the
meeting.
Chicago. Two hundred machinists
employed at the plant of the Thomas
Brass and Iron Company at Wauke
gan went out on strike as the result
of a 20 per cent cut in wages. The
factory, which is operated by Milwau
kee capital, probably will have to shut
down. Most of the strikers are union
men.
New York. Grave diggers of this
city recently formed a labor union.
London. Eng. The report of the
ninth annual conference of the British
labor party. recently published,
showed that at the close of 1908 there
were affiliated 172 trades unions, with
a total membership of 1,121.256; and
two Socialist societies, with a mem
bership of 27.465 aggregate. 14 4S.72L
Washington, The International As
sociation of Marble Workers will hold
its annual convention in this city
June 7.
New York. Newspaper and Mail
Deliverers" union of New York city,
organized nine years ago, now has a
membership roll of 1.500.
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