The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1901-01-26

resolution requiring the label on all
county printing. The action of the
was due to the efforts
Of E. F. Galley, secretary of New AL
bany Typographical Union, No. 1863.
Contractors in Muncie, Ind, are en-
deavoring to deliver a Knockout blow
to the carpenters union. The carpen-
tiers are members of the Building
Trades Council and the other trades
will give the carpenters lift.
The Central trades Council of Day.
ton, Ohio, is made up of sixty-seven
unions and has no business agent
Ky, is also without an
agent, but both want one.
Judge Mcpherson issued an injunc-
ton against the clerks of Davenport,
Iowa, prohibiting them from boycott
ing unfair merchants. But the clerks
have friends. Later: The judge says
he acted hastily and the plaintiffs
withdrew the case.
The cigarmakers of Nashville, Tenn,
held blue smoker recently. Governor
McMillin was the principal speaker and
was followed by a representative from
each organization in ten-minute talk.
"A hot time in the old town. was the
outcome of the meeting and it wasn't
caused by the heat from the blue label
ed cigars altogether, as the eloquent"
was there in abundance.
The National Association of House
Painters and Decorators meets at Con-
vention Hall, Buffalo, February 1928.
Extensive importation of Porto Rican
cigars through the Chicago custom
house has given some anxiety to DEAL
ers in domestic goods, as we'll as to
the members of the cigarmakers' union,
they fearing the development of a trade
that may seriously interfere with the
domestic industry. The liberal terms
of the Porto Rican tariff give the new
industry many advantages over other
foreign trade.
The executive council of the Illinois
State Federation of Labor has prepared
a number of measures for submission
W Tic Scoo11 u Cllc 11lIuO1o 6SucIdl dS-
sembly, the principal one being for the
repeal of the Case garnishment law,
a greater restriction of the production
of convict made goods in competition
with free labor, and a more rigid en-
forcement of the. child labor law
throughout the state: .a..-4.zz.z--. IL. n.
The printers of Glassboro, N. j., have
organized a union.
According to the Anglo Russian, the
first example in Southern Russia of an
employers voluntary granting of an
eight-hour day to his workmen has re-
Gently taken place in the little town Of
Kakhovka, government of Khersan. M.
Pankeleff, proprietor of local mills,
has, on his own initiative, reduced the
hours of labor of his Workmen from
twelve to eight, without deducting any,
thing from their wages. So far he
remains quite content with the change
and states that the men have become
more alert, more attentive, and their
labor more productive than before.
More than $4,000 tons of merchant
shipping were built in the state of
Maine last year.
The Carnegie Steel Company will in
few days undertake new work at the
Carrie blast furnace at Rankin, which
will cost about $1,00OO,O00.
The strike at Nos. and colleries
of the Kingston Coal Company has
| 1,o, hox n
to work. At meeting of the union
the trouble was discussed, with the
result that the strike was declared un-
called for and the employees were warm
ed against striking without the sanction
of the proper authority. Thomas J.
Morgan, the official whose case was
! submitted to arbitration recently, has
resigned.
Owing to slackness of orders, the
| shape mill and blooming mill No. OF
the Lorain Steel Company closed dowr
Saturday for one week, throwing 1,50(
men out Of work temporarily.
| Mrs. St. Justin Beale is organizing
the girls in domestic service in New
York City. There are 10000 servan
girls in the metropolis.
The International Association of Ma
chinists have organized locals in tn.
following places: Chicago, Washing
ton, Ind, Belleville, Ont, Dunsmuir
CAL; Honolulu, Hawaii.
The strike of the employees of tn
United Traction Company at Reading
which was begun Tuesday, January s
came to an end last week. The boar,
of arbitration granted nearly ever,
demand made by the strikers.
President Johnson of the Lehigl
Valley Traction Company, which ha
it's central terminus at Bethlehem, Pa
has advanced the wages of the motor
men and conductors of his system, 20
in number, on an equal basis of SIS
per week. The scale gives new mel
| Is cents an hour and one cent 81
hour advance per year. five year mel
receiving 20 cents. The advance wa
made without solicitation on the par
of the crews.
A recent strike among the driver
and breaker boys employed by tn
Pennsylvania Coal Company at Pitts