Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1904-08-27
NEWS OF THE LABOR WORLD.
Items of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources

Items OF Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.
; Work has been resumed upon Mi
nook Und) coal mines after three
years of idleness.
The district convention of united
mine workers promulgated an official
strike order effecting about 5000 men.
The headquarters of the Western
Federation of Miners, now in Denver,
are to be removed to Lead, S. D.. ac-
cording to information from the west
A resolution providing for the regis
tration of union labels has been in
troduced in the Canadian parliament
at Ottawa.
The International Slate and Tile
Roofers' Union of America will meet
in second annual convention in st.
Louis Sept. IL.
IT New Zealand last year 1881 per-
sons drew old age pensions, amount
ing to S1.657,670. The total cost of ad-
r1inistering the act was $4,000.
The striking glove workers at
G!oversville, n. Y, are still without
hope of immediate peace. The fourth
month of the big strike is growing to
| a close.
In my judgment. the extension of
the use of the injunction is the most
disturbing factor in our national life,
.>-hc-6dHkest cIoas ap5n car norl1oE--
John Mitchell.
The wage scale of the bar iron and
steel mills OF the Republic Iron and
Steel Company will not be settled by
q board Of arbitration because of the
refusal of men to serve.
Secretary Draper of the Trade and
Labor Congress of Canada has sent
circular letter to all local labor unions
in Canada urging their aifiliation with
the Canadian parent body.
Five hundred and fifty operatives
struck at the United States Cotton
company's mills at Central Falls. r.
l., against the 1913 per cent cut in
wages. The mills shut down.
The tin plate scale has been settled
and the great Shenango tin plant will
start up full turn. orders to that effect
having been issued. and the Greer
mill will resume within few days
The Massachusetts State Fedora
tion affiliated sixty-fve additional
trade unions during the past twelve
months, its membership now includ- I
inc nearly every large union in the
Bay state.
Dispatches from Pennsylvania mine !
centers report that the Cancellation /
board is unable 10 meet the situation, !
and that both miners and operators .
are preparing for another great indus /
trial struggle.
The American Sheet and Tin Plate .
Company and the AmalSamated Asso- I
citation OF Iron, Steel and Tin Work +
ers have agreed upon a wage scale for /
tin workers. The union grants a re-
bate of 121s per cent on foreign or
ders.
President Mackey Of the Interna-
tional Paper Makers Union is report
ed to have declared that unless the (
Fox river valley paper manufa, turers
settle the strike at once he will call
out every union paper maker in the
country.
The reports OF the officers of the In
ternationai Typographical Union TO
the forthcoming convention of the Or
ganiZatiOn at st. Louis have been Is
sued in book form and show n splen.
did progress made by the printers in
the past year
The Painters Union IT. Deadwood.
$. d.. has increased the minimum
wage scale from So 20 $3.50 per day
and reduced the working day from ten
20 nine hours. Paper hangers are paid
III cents. 10 cents and 1G IS cents
an hour and 10 cents yard for bur.
lap.
3. Karpcn * Brother. one of the
largest upholstery employers in Chi
cago. and the II. Hafncr Furniture
Company have renewed the agree
ment with the upholsterers' union
providing for the employment Of mem.
bers Of the union and the nine-hCur
Unless the operatives agree TO come
into the FAN River mills and work un.
der the proposed 1919 per cent reduc-
ton. it Is doubtful II any attempt VIII
be made by the cotton manufacturers
to run the mills before October. was a
statement made by a prominent mill
treasurer.
Labor unions must live up to their