Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1897-05-29
NUMBER 40.
AMONG THE LABORERS.
Events TranspfrinR in the Domain
of Labor.

of Labor.
Organizers report new unions Of broom
| makers and a federal at Louisville: car
penters, mill men. a federal. tanners
| lathers, plasterers and painters at Mum
ising, Mich: bricklayers and masons at
| Oneida, N. Y; fire-proof tile layers. en-
caustic tile layers, frescoers and finish
men at Cleveland; bicycle workers and
garment workers at Syracuse, N. Y;
carpenters, painters and retail clerks at
kenosha. Wis; painters BARRIERS. clerks,
tailors and brewery workers at Birming-
ham, Ala.
The big strikes in ST. Petersburg the
present year have attracted the attention
Of the Russian government with the
result that hours of labor have been re-
iuced in many industries, and in some
cases tie minimum of eight hours a day
has been reached.
The alleged silver-reform legislature of
Colorado enacted a law recently making
boycotting and the blacklsting of scabs
Illegal. and now the state federation is
compelled to spend a lot of money to en-
ploy lawyers to test the law.
A dispatch says that it is almost GER
tain that the result of the vote in the
Brotherhood of Firemen upon the propo-
Sition of joining the American Fedora
lion of Labor will be favorable to the
contemplated atfiliation
The Ohio Federation of Labor has
been granted a charter by the A. F. of
l.. 1t was formerly the State Trade and
Labor Assembly, and is controlled by la
Dor fakirs and skates.
A feature Of an advertisement to erect
a school house at Wheeling w. Va, SUBJ
mitted by the board of education. reads:
Bidders must state in their bids that
only union labor will be employed"
New Brewers union formed at Fall
Drivers union at Indianapolis and Terre
Haute, Ind.
There is every indication that there
will be a law enacted in England pre-
venting the Importation of foreign
prson-made goods.
Three new unions-the machine wood
workes, garment workers and horse
shoerS-Were organized at Scranton, Pa,
last week.
Tobacco workers report that there are
2S establishments in this country at pres
ent that use their label
On July l the machinists will vote on
the question Of calling national strike
for eight hours next year.
The Heintz Picking Co., of Pittsburg,
is reported to have made peace with the
glassworkers.
Texas farmers are talking seriously of
forming military branches to carry on
heir Alliance work.
A minimum wage law applying to fac
tories has been passed by the legislature
of Victoria Australia.
A Chicago judge has decided that la
Dor organizations have the right to black
list ScabS.
1t is claimed that the city of Glasgow
now owns 1000 dwellings, which are rented
% working people.
Brotherhood of cooperative common
wealth gained seven new unions week
before last
Eastern railway employees are still re-
ceivng 10 per cent cuts. Last fall they
wore yellow hats.
The two central labor organizations
Of Zanesville,O O., have amalgamated.
Twelve new unions have been organized
at Galveston, Tex, during the year.
The Bergner 6, Engel brewery, Of Phila
ielphia, has been unionized
Mahon was reelected national presi
1ent of the street railway men.
Papermakers talk of organizing a ma
tional union.