Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1899-06-17
LABOR WORLD.
Notes and Gossip of the Week
From All Parts of the
Country.

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labels is never wasted.
The Kansas City unions are playing
base ball with each other.
Springfield. ILL.,, has joined the list of
cities where the trades unions will erect
a labor temple.
There is bright prospect that all the
tile-layers' unions will amalgamate into
one compact body.
Representatives of Iowa Cigarmakers'
Unions met at Ottumwa and perfected a
State Blue Label League.
The department store employees of New
York, Boston and Chicago are said to be
organizing to get better wages.
The twelfth annual convention of the
National Steam and Hot Water Filters
was held in Chicago this week
The National Union of Brewery Work
ers of America has donated 500 to the
striking brewers of Frankfort, Germany.
The Horseshoers' Union of Boston won
its fight for $40 a week for iremen and
$l7 for hoormen. They work eight hours
day.
Louisville will be represented at the
general convention of the Stage En-
ployes' Union, which meets in Cincin-
natl Monday.
Beginning July | the employees of the
Government printing Office at Washing
ton will receive fifty cents an hour, or
81 per day of eight hours.
The journeymen plumbers of Birming-
ham, Ala, who struck for an advance to
$3.50 per day of nine hours, have been
conceded the demand by the employers.
The Central Labor Union is making
great preparations for the celebration Of
Labor day. Large delegations from
number of surrounding towns will par
ticipate.
Over 200 steam filters went OH a strike
in Cleveland this week. The men want
an eight-hour day and uniform scale of
wages. One large firm conceded their
demands Tuesday.
At present there are only twenty-three
cities in the United States and Canada in
which carpenters work ten hours per day.
One hundred and five have the eight
hour rule and 424 work nine hours day.
In the arrangements for the national
peace jubilee at Washington all printing
is to bear the Allied Council union label,
ard work to be performed by mechanics
will be given exclusively to men carrying
cards.
Eight local charters were granted by
the Bricklayers' International Union last
month. The success of the building
trades in securing better conditions is
seen in the forming of new organizations
at many points.
The Cincinnati Labor Exchange has
declared a quarterly dividend of 10 per
cent, amounting to sly. This makes
$500 in premiums divided among the
membership in the past three quarters of
the fiscal year.
An increase of wages for $500 men
was the result of the annual conference
between the American Flint Glass Work
ers' Association and the Association of
Flint Glass Manufacturers, which met
recently at Pittsburg. Of this number
5000 are unskilled employees.
The phenomenal growth of the textile
industries of the Southern States is one
Of the features of the development of
American manufacturing. Wages remain
low as compared with the New England
mills, due largely to the want of organ
ization among the operatives.
The cause of labor won pronounced
victory in Massachusetts, when the Legis-
lature, by vote of 144 to 81, over-ruled
Gov. Wolcott's veto of the bill legalizing
trades union insurance The object of
the insurance is not pecuniary, but fra
ternal and benefcent, and does not prop
erly come under the supervision of the
laws regulating companies formed for
purely business purposes.
Thomas O'Dea, General Secretary of
the Bricklayers' and Masons' Interna-
tional Union, has forwarded to all subor-
dinate local unions a circular notifying
them to vote on a proposition of affiliat-
ing with the American Federation of
Labor This is in accordance with the
instructions of the convention held in
Hartford, Conn, in January last, and the
votes of the unions are to be returned in
time for publication in the Secretary's
semi-annual report in July.
The final conference between the rep
resentatives of iron and steel manufacture
ers and the iron and steel Wage Commit
tee of the Amalgamated Association Iron,
Steel and Tin Workers was completed
Saturday evening at Detroit. The wage
scale for iron and steel workers, as fixed
by the recent convention of the Amalga-
mated Association, are practically all ac-
eepted by the manufacturers. This means
general raise of 25 per cent. for some
$4,000 men employed in the iron and
steel manufacturing industries.
The United Labor League of Philadel-
phia has taken up the cause of the 5000
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