The Globe-republican., 1904-03-03
NEWS OF THE LABOR WORLD
Items Of Interest Gathered from, MANY
Sources.


Sources.
The steel foundry and repair snop
Of the Pencoyd (Pa.) Iron works mas
closed.
The law prohibiting the employ
ment Of boys under 16 years Of age
IN or about the mines Of Pennsylvania
was declared unconstitutional
Bishop spalding Of Peoria In an 40.
dress at Chicago, declared unions
should train their members in soorie'y
and avoid those who preach dlssen'
sion.
Keir Hardie, for the last seventeen
wears the owner and editor Of the
Labor Leader, an English labor and
reform paper, sold the paper to tne
socialist labor party Of England.
Three Of the leading business men
in Germany are in America on tour
Of investigation through the principal
cities Of this country. They Will study
our factories, banks, mills, foundrles'
railroads, etc.
The Tug and Dredge Owners Fro
tective Association Of the Great Lakes
has declared off all negotiations with
the Licensed Tugmen's Protective AS
ISOLATION, because the latter would not
concede the owners the right to nlre
and discharge men as they saw it,
Last years wages have been offered
the painter5' district council by the
Chicago contractors. The employers
decided that no increase in pay could
he made this season. Painters now
are receiving forty cents an hour ana
demand forty-fve for 1904 and htty
cents for 1906.
For the purpose Of making employ
mept on scaffolding more secure New
York painters have sent to Albany
with the 20. K" Of the Manhattan
Central Union an amendment to tne
labor law imposing penalties on con
tractors who send men to WORK Oh
unsafe scaffolds.
The question OF whether the Great
Lakes Towing company has the rlghl
to discharge tugmen without trla
will cause clash when the Licensed
Tugmen's Protective association
makes its contract with the company
Both sides to the controversy declare
a strike may result.
In connection with the composltors
strike the United Typothetae of Amer
lea has asked the Supreme Court tt
compel the International Printing
pressmen's and Assistants Union AM
the International Typographical
Union to arbitrate their differences
under an agreement made in 1907,
The plants owned by the Natlona
Glass Company at Pittsburg, eight II
number, are idle. Fully 1000 Mn
glass workers, 800 Of whom are skille
Aworkmen and members of the Amer
can Flint Glass Workers Union, ar
an a strike as a result Of the operatlo
of the plants by nonunion men and tn
proposed reduction in wages,
Resolutions condemning the legls
lature of Colorado for defeating tn
eight hour day proposition and tn
militia for hiring itself to the col
porate interests" were adopted at
mass meeting OF Chicago called b
the American Labor union. Nearl
$50 was subscribed to aid the stril
ing miners at Telluride and Crippl
Creek.
For three years the state quarryme
Of Penryhn, England, have been 0
strike for better wages. The strik
has now been declared lost and tn
wages will remain as they were. Th
effect of losing this strike has bee
to stir up the trade union bodies
England in the line Of political actiol
AT the present time sixty labor cand
dates have been chosen already
contest seats at the next election.
The new Illinois law, which prohi
Its bakers from working more tina
sixty hours week, has been carrie
from court to court, and has now bee
finally sustained by the State Court
Appeals. This Is a great victory f
the labor unions Of the state. tt
principle is now laid down that IL
hours Of labor in unhealthy trad
can be reduced by political action.
Last year in Austria thirteen ia
tories were closed by the inspecto
because the factory laws were II
obeyed. Altogether 1918 factori
were visited, $50 manufacturers we
found to be negligent and 142 we
fined to the amount Of $3.50.
there are nearly 100000 factories
Austria It will be seen that the 81
TEN Of inspection is not very col
plete.
The seventeenth annual conventl'
Of the Building Laborers' Inter-
tional Association Of America was
session at st. Louis for almost tv
weeks. The rext annual convent,
will be held in Kansas City, Mo. T
unusual length Of the convention W
due to the fact that the prlnclT
work before 1t was the revision Of t
constitution and bylaws One Of t