Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1899-10-07
LABOR WORLD.
Notes and Gossip of the Week
From All Parts of the
Country.


Pittsburg building trades mechanics
will organize a Building Trades Council.
In the South within the last FIVE
months Sl7 ,0OO,0 900 has been invested in
cotton mills
The Allied Printing Trades Council
will boom the union label during the en-
tire carnival.
1t is reported that Rll the cotton mills
at Fall River, Mass, hre to be organized
into a combine.
Syracuse trades unionists will hold a
street fair, the proceeds to go toward the
erection of labor temple.
The French coal mines employ about
81 600 persons, of whom about 10 per
cent. are women and children.
The carpenters unions of Pittsburg
have withdrawn their delegates from the
Western Pennsylvania Labor League
The meeting of the Typographical
Union last Sunday was a reminder of old
times. There was standing room only.
President McGill this week turned
over to the boot and shoe workers char
ter from the American Federation of La
Dor.
The organization committe of the Cen
trail Labor Union is doing good work.
The colored BARRIERS will soon have a
union of their own
The oldest trades union in Great Britain
is the United Society of Brushmakers,
founded in l77S, and still flourishes with
over 800 members.
The seventeenth annual convention of
the Illionis State Federation of Labor
convened at Danville tuesday, with a
larger representation than was expected.
Rein Orr, the International Treasurer
of the Amalgamated Association of Street
Railway Employees. is in the city. He
addressed two largely attended meetings
last night
Minister of Commerce Millerand, of
France, has issued orders that hereafter
all Government employees under the juris-
diction of his department shall be re-
quired to work but eight hours a day.
William Jennings Bryans speech at
the State labor mass meetings at Dallas
Monday night was almost the same as
that recently delivered in Nebraska, and
the Presidents Philippine policy came in
for severe criticism.
President Samuel B. Donnelly, OF the
International Typographical Union, re-
ports that judging by the progress recent
ly made the nine-hour work day will be
an established rule in every city and
town in the country within the next
year.
The Executive Committee of Typo
graphical Union No. G, of New York, in
circular just issued, states that persons
soliciting funds in behalf of locked-out
printers of the Sun are frauds. The
statement says the unions resources are
such that no aid is necessary or has been
asked for.
President Mitchell, of the United Mine
Workers Union, says that all previous
records in the work of organizing the
trade have been surpassed in the present
year. 1--WE have now over 1000 more
members than we had on January L." he
says. when the national convention
was held in Pittsburg we had 700 local
unions. Now we have l,040."
More than 100000 textile operatives
throughout the United States and Canada
will be benehcially affected if the pro-
posed steps toward federation of the
national bodies are carried out. Repre-
sentatives of six national organizations of
textile workers met recently i'll Boston
and definite action was taken toward
perfecting a national association to in
clude the whole.
Theodore Zollner, delegate from the
Machinists' Union to the Minneapolis
Trades Council, was unseated as a dele
gate at its last meeting, Zollner is a
Socialist, and it was charged ard proved
that the Socialist Alliance was hampering
and interfering with the work of trades
union organization. A committee Of in
vestigation to whom the matter was re-
ferred recommended that all Socialists be
expelled from the council. and Zollner
was ''made to walk" accordingly.
The letter-carriers at their recent ma
tional convention at Scranton. Penn,
gave the Hanna machine politicians a
"solar plexus" blow from which they
have not yet recovered, and in admins
tering it made them understand very
plainly that although the letter-carriers
may be Government employees they are
not to be classed as creatures of the
Hanna machine. A resolution with q
dewey" preface to grease its passage
was introduced and indorsing The Ad
ministration's stand on the Philippine
question. II was overwhelmingly voted
down on the ground that it was an efforr
to introduce politics into the association
deliberations.
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