Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-05-08
The World of Labor


Union upholsterers are organizing
throughout Greater New York fnr ths7
betteri1ent of the industry.
The initiation fee To the. Pit+sh,r,, ',oo,I
of the brotherhood of Carpanters ~ M
district has been advanced rom a. ~ Sttt
Buffalo bricklayers will receive 80 cent;
an hour ana stoneMasons IS cents. The
tarpt hteTS ,r rel USED an offer Of 32Ia cents
an noun. They want 31,h cents an ho,r
\ convention will be held in NTi,noa'r,
lis in September under the ausniceS ~ the
Iiignt-tloUr Day Supreme Grand Taaorto
Of America. The league is in the forma-
tive stage.
The International Association Of RrIde,
and Structural Iron Workers il toi,in,- !
becoming affiliated with the An,eric.it,
Federation Of labor.
4 schedule uf wages for macbiniets III
the railway shops Of the C1nadj..n ~
cihc Railway has been substituted for the
consideration of the company \ f1vor-
able answer is anticipated.
While the unions affiliated wifi, tba Ch;-
cagO Federation OF Labor have over.
wheimiuSiy defeated the pronosition 70
90 into iulitlcS: many of the orelniza-
tons declare mat something should be
done u 81 q impartial men to the iu-
dietary.
The strike Of Smoky CITY To1gn Rail.
ernakers ana iron Shipbuiiders 61s hrrn
settled. They asked for an advance o.
from 50 10 S5.Jo, and Won their fight. over
w men were ",t ior nearly three weeks
1t is understood that the inside men Will
present Il new scale.
James NJ. Lynch. president of the Inter
national Typographical Union. reports an
|GnprCcedcntod growth n that organization
curing the last month. He saws The or
partlnents Of $3.50 Plants throughout the
country at the present time ana new
ones are being added daily.
The South Chicago steel workers. whose
refusal to obey th@ strike order Of Pres
idrnt ShifIcr last September resulted III
themselves out in the cold. ana deyel0u-
mentS of the last week show that thev
are anxious to be again under the pro-
tectinS wins Of some national organiza-
ton.
At no time in the history Of trades
unions in Chicago has there been sIcn a
boom for organization work as at pres
ent. \ union OF iabOrers in the different
sashousea was started. At least three
other branches ot industry are scrl<lny.
organization. They are the laundry Girls,
the shipping clerks and the paper-boX
makers.
Walter Vrooman, the social reformer.
announces mat ne has purchased the
land ana completed plans for building i
model village. or cooperative community,
within Il snort distance of Kansas CITY.
The village. Nj. VrOOman saws. UilI
finally have dozen factories for the
manufacture Of as many different Kinds
IF articles. churches, schoolhouses, dwell
ings. stores. and places of amusement all
built at his expense
Pittsbur% street railway men have bcen
promised an increase June l. The men
now receive y cents per hour for one
years service; q for two years, and y
cents for four and over The following
are the demands made by Division No. s.:
Increase in wages, universal "sharking''
time, decrease in length of suspension OF
men for breach OF rules. the establish
ment of uniform schedule not to ex-
coed ten hours; where convenient, to
adopt the 'tWo-turn' system; recogni-
ton of the union, and the privilege OF all
men to become members of the same.
" hat makes the Belgium strike Of
interest to labor in every other part of
the world is the fact that, though
Ostensibly the strike is merely a politi-
eel issue involving the right to a vote.
q right which the workers in other
countries have long ago won, and, hav-
ing won, prize very highly in too many
instances the movement in Belgium is
q trade union and socialistic movement.
aiming to bring about great economic
changes in the industrial world The
center of the movement in Brussels is
connected with the Socialist and trade
union movement in every part Of the
world Not only are the trades union
lists and Socialists closely affiliated in
this great movement, which aims at
overthrowing the entire capitalistic
system of that country. but the very
backbone, the treasure house, as il
We're, frCm which the supplies are re-
ceiVed for carrying on the active
propaganda is the great cooperative
society which extends all over Belgium.
Toronto Star.
BY the new Australian labor law a
court is created which recognizes only
two kinds of Industrial unions-indus-
trial unions of employers and in
dustrial unions of employees. Only a
registered trade union can be regis
tered as an Industrial union of en-
ployes. The president of the court
must be a judge of the Supreme court.
Every care has been taken to make the
court an Independent and dignifted
tribunal. Every industrial dispute--a
phrase which is defined in terms which
includes every possible matter which
can arise between an employer and his
worimen-can be referred to the court,
either by the industrial union inter-
ested or by the registrar. Orders Of
the court may be enforced, as in New
Zealand, by injunction or by fires and
penalties levied on the corporate funds
of the union and on individual MEM
bers, but they are also enforceable by
q totally new method, upon the
efficiency Of which will probably de-
pend the SUCCESS or failure of this
measure-namely, the declaration OF q
common rule. The court also has power
to declare a standard wage and to di-
rect that, other things being equal, an
employer shall give preference to
unionists whenever two or more men
are applying for employment at the
same time.