The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-23

give their annual picnic at Hammond
Grove to-day. y large delegation is ex-
pected 10 attend.
Butchers and meat cutters have secured
an increase in wages amounting to $4,000
"A month. and the hours of labor have been
reduced from two 10 four a day.
Local Union of Beef Handlers and Butch
ers is rapidly increasing its membership.
a special meeting was held last week to ini-
tiate candidates. regular meetings being
unable to take care of them.
Secretary Wilson. of the United Mine
Workers. returned Friday from Landsford.
Pa. where on Tuesday he made AN address
at the dedication of the Sharpe monument.
William Sharpe was a miner killed in the
recent Pennsylvania strike.
After three weeks strike the Chicago
Wood Workers have been granted an in
crease. The minimum scale now is twenty
five cents per hour for finishers and twenty
eight cents for cabinet makers. This in
crease affects nine plants employing about
$500 people.
Edward Gould, editor of The Union, and
Edward Perkins, president of the state
Federation of Labor will go TO Brazil on
the 18th of the month 10 deliver Labor
day addresses which will be given in that
city on that date. Edward Gould will speak
al Richmond ON Labor day.
Henry Fisher, president of the Tobacco
Workers International Union. is in Chi
cago, and there is possibility of a tight
being inaugurated there against the tobacco
trust. Fisher says that at the plant OF
Spaulding & Merrick workers are being dis
charged as soon as the firm finds out they
have become members of the union.
The Employers Association, which says
it has 5000 members including most of the
business men of Kansas City, has started
a movement to repeal all city laws that
discriminate in any way between union and
independent labor. There are several city or
dinances that favor the product of union
labor to the exclusion of independent labor.
George Custer, third vice president of
the holders International Union. will be
in the city to-day. He returned last night
from a trip to Cleveland and other north
ern points, where he was successful in the
accomplishment of his work. He will leave
early this week to make extended trip
through the South, which will require sew
eral months.
A complete change in the character of
the working men and women who live in
the Chicago stockyard district, n change
from abject hopelessness to the feeling of
personal isnty. has come as the direct
suit of the labor union, according to Miss
Mary f. Mcdowell, head resident of the
University of Chicago Settlement. located
in that district
At Paterson, n. j., all building trades
now work forty-four hours a week. Masons
get $40; plumbers, $3.50; timers, So; carpen-
ters, s.; linemen, $3.50 to 81; painters, s.;
fathers, $50; Transfers, 81, and roofers, S.
to 81 day. Daily wages average as follows:
Men, $1.22; women, 81 cents; children, %
cents; % per cent. pays rent; so per cent.
pays food and fuel, and % per cent. pays
medicine and clothes, and the remainder
pays the way to the poor house.
A convention of employers will be held
i'm Chicago within the next month to form
a national employers association for deal
ing with the labor problem along conserva-
tive lines Frederick W. Job, secretary of
the Chicago Employers Association, says
that besides the Chicago organization, the
business men have banded together in
Cleveland. Boston. st. Paul, Minneapolis,
New York, San Francisco. Cincinnati, St.
Louis, Kansas City. Omaha and Brooklyn.
The refusal of d. NJ. Parry to meet the
/ Labor day committee with view to ar
| ranging a debate between Samuel Com
| pers and Mr.. Parry on Labor day puts an
| end to the plan of bringing the two men
! together. The committee does not expect
| to push the matter any further, as they
do not think it will be of any use Mr.
| Parry has said that he will not meet Mr.
| Gompers under any condition, and there
| FORE the committee says, a conference could
| lead to nothing.
| The referendum vote of the Brotherhood
| of Locomotive Firemen on the $4,000 ap-
| preparation for the erection of a home for
aged and disabled railway employees has
been considered and passed by 10000 ma
| jority. The home is located at Highland
| Park, a suburb of Chicago. But it was de-
cided to secure another location. The train
| men and conductors at their last conven-
ton appropriated $4,000 each, and the total
/ of $4,000 will be used in the purchase of
| ground and the erection of suitable build
| ing.
| A recent report of the British labor de-
partment shows that the settlement of labor
| controversy by arbitration is growing in
| favor in the United Kingdom. During the
! last year $4,000 disputes respecting wages
were settled by Cancellation boards and
10000 by the parties themselves. Wage
! earners received much less than in 1901,
| but taking the period of ten years, from
1893 to 1902, the whole of the time the
| statistics have been collected. there was a
slight average increase, about pence per
| head per week.
John Mitchell, president of the United
Mine Workers, is spending his vacation
| working on his book, which will appear in
the fall. He is at his home in Spring VAL
! ley, ILL.,, and most OF his time is devoted
| TO the work. The book will be entitled,
Labor Organizations, and will be COM
prehensive history of the labor movement
J since its beginning. Mr.. Mitchell expects
to have the book compiled and in the hands
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