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It is insurance against sweat shop and
tenement goods, and against disease. . . .
Columbus, O. The Brotherhood of
Railway Trainmen unanimously re
elected grand master, or president, as
he will be known, W. G. Lee of Cleve
land, under the .title he will bear when
the new constitution becomes effec
tive. A. R. King of Cleveland was re
elected general secretary and treas
urer and D. L. Cease of Cleveland,
editor and manager, both by unani
mous votes. Considerable display of
opposition was made to the election
of T. R. Dodge to the office of as
sistant to the president, which he is
now filling by appointment, and all
the vice-grand masters or vice-presi
dents, as they in future are to be
called, were placed in nomination
against Dodge. Nevertheless he was
elected by a vote in excess of two-
thirds of the convention. Val Fitzpat-
rick of Columbus, A. F. Whitney of
Iowa and James Murdock of Toronto,
Ont., were re-elected first, second and
third vice-presidents respectively.
Utica, X. Y. The aligners
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5 best equipped, most beautifully furnished.
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Manila. The first restraining or
der ever obtained from the Philippine
courts with the purpose of enjoining
the actions of a labor union was
granted on petition of the Manila
Street Railway Company. It directs
that certain union mass meetings.
scheduled to take place, be prohibited.
The injunctive writ proceedings fol
low the calling off of the recent
staike of the street car emDloves
which led to a factional split in the
car men s union. The dominant fac
tion, headed by President Obrera of
the Manila Labor . council, decided
after much discussion to renew the
strike and boycott against the com
pany. A manifesto was issued de
claring the company unfair and a
series of meetings had been an
nounced.
San Francisco. The printers of this
city have been advised by the Interna
tional Typographical union that Presi
dent James M. Lynch has started a
campaign to increase the general
ployed by the Remington Typewriter I membership of the organization by go
ing into tne smaller towns with the
educational plan to seek as members
all such as can prove themselves com
petent. It is said that while the
membership is very large there are
still many competent printers who
have not yet joined. It is the inten
tion of the international body to hare
every printer in the United States and
Canada in the union, then to educate
those who are not fully competent by
Company of Ilion have gone on a
strike. The strike is based on a de
mand that they be permitted to do
all the aligning of machines manu
factured in the Ilion plant and that
none of it shall be done in other de
partments, which has been the case
when the plant is rushed with orders.
It is rumored that an attempt will be
made to import aligners from the
Smith Premier pLwt at Syracuse
when work is resumed in the Reming-1 the correspondence system, and, when
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ton factory. The residents of Ilion,
and particularly the business men,
are becoming alarmed over the situa
tion and are fearful that the strike of
the aligners is only the beginning of
grave labor troubles in the big manu
factory.
Paterson. N. J. With new orders
for hundreds of locomotives on its
books the American Locomotive Com
pany is making arrangements to re
open at an early date the Rogers Lo
comotive works. For a treat many
years the Rogers plant wa one of the
mainstays of Paterson. In flush times
it gives employment to 2,000 men.
most of them high-class mechanics.
and in ordinary times its employes
number from 1,200 to 1,500. Its pay
roll runs from $1,000,000 to J2,000,000
a year and the number of persons af
fected by the closing cr opening of
the shops ranges from 6,000 to 10,000.
The Rogers works had to be closed
down on March 1, 1908. because of a
complete lack of orders."
Peoria, 111. Following a session
that lasted 12 days, the fourth bien
nial convention of the Switchmen's
Union of North America came to a
close here. The work of the last ses
sion consisted in securing two mem
bers for the grand board of directors,
the other three having been already
chosen. T.,e board elected is
as follows: R. J. Martin, Minneap
olis; H. D. Nolan, Cincinnati; M. J.
Boyle, Chicago; H. W. Duly, Buffalo
w. A. Titus, Cleveland. Following a
heated contest on the election of ed
itor of the official organ, the Switch
men's Journal, S. W. A. Thompson of
East St. Louis was elected to the of
fice, defeating E. D. Jackson.
Pittsburg, Pa. The total member
ship of the United Mine Workers of
America, according to the latest fig
ures compiled at the national head
quarters of the organization, is now
about 309.000. This Is the largest
paid-up membership on record in the
history of the prosperous organiza
tion.
Chicago. After 46 hours of discus
sion the jury in the Madden case es
tablished a record in "labor" cases in
Cook county by finding Martin B.
("Skinny") Madden, president of the
Chicago Building Trades council; M.
J. Boyle and Fred A. Pouchot guilty
of conspiring to extort money in a
labor strike. The jury fixed the pun
ishment at a fine of $500 for each of
the convicted men. The verdict was
the result of a compromise between
jurors who wanted to send Madden
and his fellow-conspirators to the pen
itentiary and jurors who wanted to
free them.
Atlanta. Ga. The strike of the fire
men on the Georgia railroad was de
clared off. The terms of the settle
ment were not given out, but it was
learned that they were substantially
as follows: The men to return to
work under conditions existing at the
time the strike began until final ad
justment is made. All negro firemen
at the terminal stations will be dis
pensed with. All discharged brother
hood firemen will be reinstated.
Hazleton, Pa. Children under four
teen, who cannot read and write, will
be taken out of mills and factories
by truant officers.
Boston. Boston Coal Teamsters
and Handlers union has elected
a committee to make recommenda
tions for rules for the establishment
of a permanent local sick benefit sys
tem.
Worcester, Mass. Sheet metal
workers have signed an agreement
under which the eight-hour work day
will go into effect July 1. The union
is also officially recognized.
Augusta, Me. In Maine the work
ing hours, of women and children in
manufacturing industries, have been
recuced by legislative enactment from
they become proficient, to take them
into, the union.
Boston. The shorter work-week
special committee of the Carpenters'
District council of greater Boston met
to receive reports from the officers of
the various affiliated unions regarding
notification by employers as to
whether or not they would pay, begin
ning Tuesday, June L a wage scale of
4i cents an hour, which is an in
crease of four cents an hour over the
old rate, and also agree to the Satur
day half-holiday all the year round.
Practically every big firm in Boston
and vicinity has notified its men that
it would agree to the new conditions,
or has officially notified Secretary Ar
thur M. Watson of the council that
the scale would be established at once.
Washington. President Samuel
Gompers of the American Federation
of Labor will sail from New York on
the steamer Baltic, on June 23, to
study the sociological, economic and
industrial conditions of European la
bor at short range. The executive
council of the federation has author
ized the expenditure for the trip. Mr.
Gompers has accepted an invitation
from the Italian commissioner general
of immigration to visit Rome, and
from there he will go to Germany,
France, Sweden and England, remain
ing in London, his birthplace, for
somewhat longer visit.
Charleston, W. Va. Following
conference between Kanawha coal
operators and District President Ben
jamin Davis of the United Mine
Workers and Kanawha operators, it
was said on good authority that the
strike in the Kanawha coal field will
end next week. All parties in inter
est, however, refuse to make
definite statement.
New York. New York Typograph
ical union No. 6 is developing a plan
to erect a building to be known as
the Typographical Temple, at a cost
of a quarter of a million dollars, to
be used as headquarters for that and
other organizations in the metropolis.
San Francisco. The secretary-treasurer
of the International Protective
Union of Retail Clerks and fourth
vice-president of the American Federa
tion ef Labor, Max Morris of Denver,
CoI will attend the International Fed
eration of Employes to be held in
Geneva, Switzerland, next August.
This will be the first reunion of the
retail clerks organizations of the two
continents.
Honolulu. More than 6,000 Japan
ese plantation laborers are now out
on strike. One thousand on Kahuka
plantation struck, demanding that the
Japanese foremen be discharged as
they were spies. On an Oahu planta
tion $21,000 was paid out. Strikers
agreed to leave peaceably. The
planters have hired 1,100 strike
breakers and declare they won't yield
to the demands of the Japanese.
Providence, R. I. At the recent con
vention of the Consumers' league, held
here, 20 states being represented. It
was decided to make a more careful
study of the piece work system in the
manufacture of undergarments to be
worn by women, and to devise a plan
to establish wage boards to adjust
working conditions between employer
and employe.
Brussels, Belgium. The Belgian
chamber of deputies has accepted,
with 70 against 39 votes, a bill for the
reduction of the worling hours in the
mines to nine hours; the chamber
favors further reductions in cases
where excessive heat and damp act in
juricufcly to the health of the miners.
London, Eng. The Nottingham
lacemakers' strike ended recently, the
men agreeing to resume work. The
employers conceded the terms de
manded, under protest, stipulating
that a joint meeting of employers and
operatives he held to consider the
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