The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-22

port.
Labor Notes.
United Labor League, to comprise
every union in Alabama, is in the course
of formation.
The Knights of Labor will hold their
November, 1904.
1t is expected that an organization Of
union singers will be formed in the near
future in New Haven, Conn.
Garment workers are considering the
question of the abolition OF Sunday work
in the clothing trade in Montreal, Can.
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Forty-fve hundred girls employed IN
telephone factories in Chicago, ILL.,, are
to be organized at once into the womens
Auxiliary of the International Brotherhood
| of Electrical Workers. The girls wages
run from 81 to SIG week.
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More than 10000 laborers have taken
Storage passage for Europe from the
| United States since Oct i, which is nearly
| three times the number that left during
| the same period last year. The shutting
| down of steel and iron plants is said to be
| the principal reason for the exodus.
Pittsburg's Builders Exchange League
has locked out the building trades of that
| city, and the idle men now number 10000.
| The builders say the lockout is on account
| of the unwillilgnesS of the men to dispense
| with the sympathetic strike. If 1T con-
! tinues very long some 10000 Will be idle.
The Chicago, ILL.,, Federation of Labor
has declared in favor of the sympathetic
| strike as basic principle of trades union
| ism, and the local delegate to the conven-
| ton of the American Federation of Labor
| in Boston WAS instructed to exert every
| effort to INDUCE the national body to adopt
| the resolution.
The threatened general strike In the
| packing centers of the country will prob
ably be prevented. Michael Donnelly, pres
| ident of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters
/ and Butcher WOrkmen'S Union, has re-
| ceived communication from the Chicago
| packers asking for a conference to bring
| about a settlement.
| Superintendent Ames, of the Western
| Union Telegraph Company at Boston,
Mass, has notified Mayor Collins that the
mayors request that the employment of
| girls for the collection and delivery of tele-
| grams, adopted because of trouble between
| the company and it's boy messengers, be
| given up, could not be complied with.
|
| Coal mining not resumed Monday
in the northern Colorado field, the opera
tors proposition to concede an eight-hour
day pending the result of the strike in
southern Colorado having been rejected by
the miners. Information from the southern
| field is to the effect that neither the oper-
| ators nor the strikers show any signs of
weakening aid a prolonged struggle is now
| expected.
Philadelphia Transfers are being rapidly
organized after the Chicago method, and
it is expected that the 5000 drivers of that
city will soon have unions of teamsters
running ice milk, produce, express, build
ing material. delivery and other trucks and
wagons Organizer Albert Young, of Chi
cago, told his listeners at one or the meet
ings that soon as the teamsters were
| thoroughly organized a concerted effort
would be made to help the bakers bring
the National Biscuit Company to terms.
|
Practically all the public school teachers
in New York city have been brought into
big trade union. numbering 1900 mem
bers 1t is known as the "Interborough
Council of Teachers" Except for walking
delegates the Interborough Council pos
sesses all the attributes of a trade union,
although the teachers insist that there is
/ Il IL.
Oyertures for affiliation with the Chicago
Teachers Union and with the central Fed
Grafton Union OF New York have been re-
jected; but il Is prophesied that they will
all get together in due time.
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Chicago has in the neighborhood Of 4s5
Chinese laundries, some of them employing
a score or more of workers. They are really
making an impression on the laundry bus
mess of the city, and for this reason the
laundry wagon drivers, laundry owners
and laundry. workers propose to begin an
agitation to drive all the Cinnamon out of
the business The workers in the Chinese
laundries have no regular hours, but prac-
ticaly work continuously. They work
three or foIr hours. take a bite and a
nap, and then begin again. Against this
system white workers are unable to COM
pete.
The joint conference OF plate glass man.
ufacturers And skilled workers, held at
Philadelphia. resulted in the adoption of
a uniform wage scale whereby nearly 1000
workers viii: receive an advance in wages
of from IL ITO 21a per cent. To meet this
increase the price of glass will probably be
advanced Il to 20 per cent There are
nearly 1900 pots in the United States, en-
ploying 2,5Ot expert blowers. The others
who Will benefit by the increase are gath
erers. fiattehers and cutters. Under the
new scale the wages for blowers will aver
age $3.50 a month for single strength glass
and 800 a month for double-thick plate.
Preparations for the Henry Demarest
Lloyd memorial meeting In the Chicago
Auditorium, Nov. %. an extern
sive scale, and it will be important
event in the history of the social reform
movement. Addresses will be made by John
Mitchell. president of the United Mine
Workers of America, Tom L. Johnson
mayor Of cleveland, Samuel L. Jones
mayor of Toledo, Edwin NJ Mead of the
Twentieth ,Century Club, Boston, and
| Clarence $. Darrow and Jane Adams OF
Chicago. There will also be music by the
German singing societies Portraits ana
| biographies of Mr.. Lloyd have been printed
| in ali the leading magazines of the country
the principal one appearing in the Pilgrim