Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1899-05-20
LABOR WORLD
Notes and Gossip of the Week
From All Parts of the
Country.

Islands, have organized union.
President Fox, of the Iron Molders'
Union, will be in Chattanooga next
week.
Organized labor is on a boom in the
East, New York reporting seventy-eight
new unions.
Minnesota labor unions were success
full in killing the anti-boycott bill in the
legislature of that State.
The horseshoers of Boston now work
under a uniform schedule and scale, all
the employers having signed.
The Illinois trades unions have con-
tributed $4,000 for relief of families of
union miners killed at Virden.
The union hatters of America have
unionized more than twenty factories
during the past eighteen months.
The eighth annual convention of the
International Longshoremen's Associa-
ton will meet in Buffalo on July H.
Mat. Pepper, formerly of New Albany,
has been appointed Superintendent of the
new Ford plate-glass works at Toledo,
Ohio.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men now numbers over 100000 the
largest membership in the history of the
order.
Seven trades union candidates were
elected out of fifteen seats contested in
the recent election in Queensland, Aus
tralia.
A two weeks revival by the Central
Labor Council at TT. Wayne, Ind, re-
suited in the formation of eight new
unions.
Some of the Knights of Labor in the
East are urging the merging of that or
ganization into the American Federation
of Labor.
The Missouri House, by a vote OF
eighty-three to seven, passed bill re-
quiring all public printing to bear the
union label.
Eugene V. Debs will lecture at the
Auditorium in Chattanooga on May %,
upon invitation of the Central Labor
Union of that city.
Labor-saving machinery having in.
creased the productive capacity of
workmen, they in justice should be
afforded more leisure.
The gatherers in the green bottle works
at Streator, ILL.,, won their strike, and the
cxcfa,,, Of Euae &c ahol;ebaJ o,1 49,, H..
will be semi monthly.
The machinists' strike in the Hoe
Printing Press Works in New York has
been compromised, the men returning to
work at an advance in wages.
The city council of Cincinnati recently
adopted a resolution that all uniforms of
he police and hremen must bear the
Journeymen Tailors' Union label.
During the past four years Amster-
dam, Holland, has had in its own hands
the water, gas and telephone systems. 1t
also owns and operates the street rail-
ways.
The Western Federation of Miners
has a proposition under consideration to
erect a home for aged and disabled
miners, similar to the one conducted by
the printers
The labor unions of Peoria, ILL.,, have
standing committees on printing, whose
duty is to see that all printing and adj
vertising for the union is given only to
union offices.
The Belmont, Top and La Belle iron
mills at Wheeling and the Brentwood |
furnace at Martins Ferry, Ohio, have
advanced wages of 5000 employees ten
per cent, restoring the rate of 1892.
The BARRIERS now meet every Thursday |
at Beck's Hall, and are increasing in
membership right along. They have Sc
cured Penix Hill Park for grand con-
cert and picnic for Sunday, June IS.
President T. J. Smith, of District 10,
United Mineworkers, ordered the miners
at the new Soddy Coal Company to walk
out last Wednesday, This strike is the
result of the company refusing to rein
state several union miners who had been
The move to import armed non-union-
lists into Arkansas to take the place of the |
striking miners was prevented by an in
junction by Judge Rowe in Little Rock,
under which the State officials are charged |
to keep all such out of the State. The
Governor has announced he will comply |
with Judge Rowe's order.
The great army of labor in England
emerged from the year 1898, on the
whole, better off than it entered upon it,
to judge from the fifth annual abstract of
labor statistics, just issued by the Board
of Trade. In all 97S,OOO workpeople
received increases of wages, and only
10000 were affected by decreases.
The union miners win at Pana, Ill.
the State Board of Arbitration,
the settlement is: All the negroes to be
discharged and sent out of the State; the
union to be recognized aud union miners
to be reinstated; the scale to be agreed
upon by conference or fixed by the State
Board of Arbitration. The negroes are
leaving and the union men resuming