The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1902-09-04

There are 72,62s miners In Mexico.
Michigan postal clerks have organ.
lied
BARRIERS IN Holland receive about 50
q week
Canadian labor unions are demand.
ing contract foreign labor laws
1t is estimated that 4.475.ooO person.
are employed in the worlds mines.
A weeks work for women aud BOYS
IL. New Zealand factories Is limited TO
45 hours.
Textile Industries In America employ
6S297S wage-earners at an average OF
sd.17 a week
A union OF bed rubbers. polishers aud
inside marble workers aud telephone
and switchboard makers has been
formed
Chicago Typographical Union, No. IL.
celebrated It's fiftielh anniversary by
monster outdoor demonstration A
Thornton Park.
Russian and other miners are bslag
employed In English coal mines and An
agitation against their employ ineIs Is
being considered.
Adding the p labor papers which
were launched in the last year, there
are now 2l7 union labor papers pub.
lished In this country.
New Zealand has purchased one OF
the largest coal mines In that country.
A coal trust was being formed and the
government came forward with public
ownership as the remedy.
Organizers for the Clgarmakers
Union are making lnroads into the ter
ritory OF the American Tobacco Com
pany. known as the trust. and the agl.
tation Is going steadily on. The union
never was able to get foothoid with
this concern until the present time
committee has been chosen to look
into the matter OF organizing new
party to be supported by organized Ia
Dor. The idea originated with Presl
dent Gompers. OF the American Fedora.
ton 81 Labor. Gompers suggests the
idea OF abandoning the two old parties.
but makes no recommendations
Frank Hawley, OF Buffalo. grapd
master OF the switchmen's Union OF
North America. advocates the forma
tlon OF national labor federation.
composed OF all the labor organixati :
OF the United States. lie Is of the opln.
Ion that II such an organization v-ero
formed It could, II the necessity arose.
call for general strike. which would
stop the wheels OF commerce and
eventually force employers to eoncede
tne demands Of their employees.
In Cleveland clause In the latest
franchise granted requires that In case
OF dispute the company shall select two
men. the employees two. and the mayor
OF the city shall act as the nth mem.
Der VI board to arbitrate all dlffsr-
ences. Another clause provides Iat
the men shall not work more than ten
hours In fourteen out OF every twenty
four. This rule abolishes the swing
runs. ms the men are assured that they
will have al least ten hours to them.
selves ut stretch every day Instead
of having two or three turns and not
getting more than four or 1--WE hours
of for rest at one time.
The trustees Of the Johns Hopkins
University announce that citizen OF
Baltimore has given sum Of money
to the university to be devoted 10
systematic investigation OF the history.
activities and Influence OF labor organi-
cations in the United States The sum
OF $500 Is given for the immediate pur.
chase by the university library Of add
tional books, journals aud reports re
latjng 10 this subject The further Gum
OF $1,000 Is made available 10 meet the
expenses incident to carrying on the
inquiry for the next academic year
The Investigation will be conducted By
the economic seminary. under the d.
rectlon of DIR. ]. II. Hollander. assocl-
ate professor OF finance. II will begin
in October. 1902. and extend over such
period of time as may be warranted by
the extent OF the inquiry and the def
niteness Of the results attained.