Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1899-11-11
LABOR WORLD.
Notes and Gossip of the Week
From All Parts of the
Country.

The first trade union in the United
States was that of the tailors, formed in
1906.
The American Federation of Labor has
increased its membership over 100000
this year.
The first recorded strike in the United
States is that of the journeymen bakers
of New York, in 1741.
The trade union deposits in the Post
Office Savings Bank of England amounted
to s., 500, 900 last year.
The granite cutters all over the coun-
try will come out in demand for an
eight-hour day on January l.
Strikes among the molders are on at
Milwaukee, St. Paul, Memphis Louis
vile, Hamilton, Lorain and Pittsburg.
The street car men at San Antonio,
Texas, won their strike in six days. Got
an increase of wages and yearly agree
ment
The oldest union in Great Britain is the
United Society of Brushmakers, founded
in 1878, and still hourishing with 1872
members.
The National Union of Steam Engin-
GERS announce that on May 1, 1900, their
scale of eight hours and So per day goes
into effect.
Trade unions of Montgomery, Ala, re-
fused to participate in an industrial pa
rade because the managers barred the
negro unions.
About 1900 colored oyster shuckers
were locked out at Norfolk, Va, because
they refused to sign an agreement to
leave the union.
The average weekly wages of the men
employed in the cotton mills of Maine
are sos; of the women, $500, and of
the children, 1913.
The brakemen on the Big -Four have
received an increase in wages. The conf
pany has increased their pay from $l.9O
to 81 90 on each 100 miles.
The Bricklayers' and Masons' Inter
national Union has issued charters to
eight new unions in New Jersey, Penn
sylvania, Maine, Ohio, Indiana, Texas
and Alabama.
| All the suburban cars entering Detroit
are operated by Union men inside the
city limits and now the men operating
three of the suburban roads have organ
lied, as they see the benefits to be de-
! rived.
A. c. Cattermull, General Organizer
and member of the Executive Board of
Carpenters, arrived in the city from
Chicago Wednesday evening. During
his stay here Mr.. Cattermull will en-
deavor, with the aid of Local Organizer
Dietz, to form unions in New Albany and
Jacksonville.
Press-feeders' and Helpers Union, No.
30, will give their first annual dance at
Odd Fellows Hall Monday evening"
November 10. The committee in charge
consists of Charles Smith, Clarence West
ley, Mike Fallen and R. Bunker Music
will be furnished by Gus Seibert's orches-
ira. A pleasant time is promised all those
who attend.
The Cleveland strike has developed
three automobile companies, one of which
will have some of their conveyances in
operation within thirty days. The stock
of the companies is selling very rapidly,
many laborers investing from $40 to 500
each. The men who are on strike are
taking an active part in the work and,
viewing it from a business standpoint,
believe the time is not far distant when
they will operate automobiles instead of
trolley cars.
81 have been turning over strike mat
tiers and the more think the more | am
on the side of Labor. Labor and skill
are capital as much as gold and silver.
Labor and skill can produce without gold
and silver. Gold and silver are depend
ant upon laLor and skill. but labor and
skill are independent in limine. The
union of the two capitals demand particle
patton in the product. Wages are mini
mized money representation of share in
product-that is, in profits. "-[cardinal
Manning.
The monthly report of the Dublin
Labodr Department of the Board of
Trade, which has just been issued, states
that the general employment during the
month of September continued steady
and good. The percentage of unemployed
members returned by trade unions was
still lower than at any similar period
since 1885, In the 1913 trade unions max
ing returns, with an aggregate member
ship of 5o2,8l2, 1929 Tor "a per cent J
were reported as unemployed at the end
of September, as compared with 2.S per
cent. in June. July and August, and with
90 per cent. in the III unions. with a
membership of 467 .O75, from which re-
turns were received for September, 1893
A decision of paramount Importance to
organized labor in New York was handed
down by the Appellate Division of the
Supreme Court, third department, during
its recent session in Saratoga. The effect
of the decision is that labor organizations