Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1899-08-12

has membership of 126,S77 and over
$500, 900 in its treasury.
The annual convention of the Connec-
ticut State Federation of Labor has been
called to meet in Bridgeport.
Unskilled labor is scarce i'll England,
and for the first time in twenty years the
railways are advertising for men.
Advices from Montgomery, Ala, state
that printers, clerks and cotton workers
there have formed organizations.
The charge is now openly made that
the Brooklyn and New York trolly strike
was forced as a stock jobbing scheme.
A machine for making barrels is said to
be in successful operation in the cooper
shops of the Pabst Brewery in Milwaukee
The bakers and confectioners' unions OF
the United States and Canada are moving
for the abolition of night work in the
trade.
Thirty-three unions will take part III
the Labor day parade at Providence, R. l.
1t will be the largest witnessed in recent
years.
The question of removing the head
quarters of the Brotherhood of Railway
Trainmen from Peoria was to have been
decided Monday.
The Chicago Penny Savings Society,
operating through the public school
teachers, last year received from the chill
dren of that city over $4,000.
Reports from the copper mining dis
trict of Upper Michigan state that there
is a great scarcity of skilled workmen II
all the mechanical and mining trades.
The Executive Board of the Colorado
Federation of Labor has levied an assess
ment of five cents per capita on the mem
bership of affiliated unions to be used ii
sustaining the smelters on strike.
The agreement recently secured by tn
Woodworkers' Union of Chicago will
the manufacturers and mill owners i
conceded to be the best of any now II
force in the trade in the United States.
St. Paul business houses will cooper
ate with the organized labor of the city i
the celebration of Labor Day. genera
observance will be given the day by tn
closing of manufacturing and bushes
establishments.
Hundreds of telephone girlsi in Chicag
and other cities are being displaced b
automatic telephone connectors, whereof
it is only necessary for the customer
push button or two in order to get an
number desired.
Real prosperity can not be said I
flourish in community like that OF Ne
York today when labor organizations RI
port 81 900 members unemployed. WI
will attempt to estimate the number
unorganized unemployed!
A The journeymen plumbers of Ne
q Haven, Conn, through conference wit
employers, have entered into an agre
il ment with employers which provides Il
v the adoption of the eight-hour day
a December l. with nine hours pay.
n Mayor Van Wyck, of Greater Ne
York, has appointed outgoing Presidei
i, James Farrell, of the Topographic
Union, as a member of the Dewey K
y cep.ion Committee. The appointment
e taken as a compliment to the lab
+" unions.
'r The fight made by the trades unionists
e Chattanooga on water monopoly has bee
d crowned with success. Much credit
l. due to the Enquirer for the part It too
Now they will bend their energies
teaching the Electric Railway Compai
a lesson.
The decision of the Illinois Steel Col
Of pany to return to the employment
n American labor, after experimenting Fl
= years with cheap European labor, IS