The Advocate and news., 1898-06-29
labor Notes.

commodore OC1ley mas TWO BOnS VINO
are members Of the Indianapolis Ty-
biographical Union.
Baltimore printer offers to enlist
and fight for nothing II some one will
support his family.
The Kansas City Gazette is one OF the
few papers in Kansas which openly at
tacks organized labor.
The labor unions Of Kansas City, Mo-,
have succeeded in securing the adoption
Of the label on all city printing.
Owing to the continued effective
strikes in the Welsh coal mines the
English supply is so limited that large
purchases are being made In this cOun-
try
The company that is introducing type
setting machines In Germany has made
an agreement with the union that only
members Of the latter shall operate
them.
The Illinois Steel Company strike at
Milwaukee Is growing. There are about
ESQ men out. The men demand 25
per cent increase In pay. The wages
now paid range from $3.50 to $2.1O per
day.
The sheet steel manufacturers Of
Pennsylvania are closing their plants
and they will remain closed for at least
six weeks after July /. The reason given
is that 1t is desirable to curtail produc-
tI0n in order to raise prices.
The Louisville & Nashville railroad
has restored One-half OF the cut made
In employees wages in 1893, and prom
ises to add the remainder Of 1t next
year. Officers figure that 1t will in
crease operating expenses $5OO,OOO.
National Labor Tribune: Despite the
withdrawal from private employment Of
some 100000 Of the flower of physical
manhood, we hear of very few vacant
situations going seeking occupants. Can
not our political economists see moral
In this?
During q recent wOrkingmens insur-
rection in Italy the government put
the railway employees under military
command and in addition to their reg
ular pay gave them an allowance for
meals They turned this into their
strike fund and when the government
officers heard Of 1t the extra pay was
stopped.
Kansas City, Kas., will put the union
label on all city printing.
A jury In the District court at CoiEey-
villC has given judgment for $5,116 for
the death of an employe who was smoth-
cred by landslide in O briCkyard. It |
was held that the company was respon-
Siblc because 1t had not taken proper
precautions to prevent such an accident. |
The Colorado coal miners strike is
still on. The original trouble was over
low wages. Both sides agreed to sub |
init the case to the State Board Of Ar |
hitratlon. 1t found that higher wages |
should be paid. The miners went back |
10 work but the companies refused to |
pay the scale fixed by the board and they
are out again. The operators are trying |
TO import outsiders and have called on |
the Governor to call out the militia to |
assist them. He refuses to call it out.
The miners will probably win.
AT Denver contract to build a church
was let with provision that none but |
union labor should be employed. The
contractor Immediately began to employ |
nOn-uni0n men. When an effort was |
made to enforce the provisions OF the
contract an injunction was secured
which restrained the officers of the
church from interfering with the work.
It nulllfies the contract and leaves
the church organization without author
fly to compel the doing Of the work it |
desires. The injunction business Is get
ting worse.
n The miners of the Western Coal and |
Mining Company at shaft No. 4, at Yale,
are having a slight difference with their
employers on account of a check weigh
man they had selected, but who proved |
10 be Objectionable to the company. The |
company requested him TO resign. The |
miners did not like this and called a |
meeting to see whether they would sub |
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