The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-05-17
MEws oF TAE LAsoR woRLD.
Items Of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.

Items Of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.
Cigarnakers Of Boston have started
cooperative cigar factory.
The United Garment Workers In
ternational union has increased in Il
years from 5000 to $4,000.
The International Amalgamated
Sheet Metal Workers Association viii
hold It's annual convention az Buffalo
In June.
Louisville. Ky. Employers associa.
tion declared for the open shop and
also for the establishment of trade
schools.
An international labor congress az
ST. Louis during the Worlds fair has
been proposed by the central body at
Milwaukee.
Judge KayaGagh IN an Injunction
against the Chicago solar plate work
ers. especially states that pioketing
As permissible
Boot and shoe workers union spent
si04.322 last year About equal sums
were spent FOR sick benefits. strikes
and advertising the union label
AS a result 81 tho meeting Of the
miners and operators Of Beaver Val
ley. Pa. the miners In the vicinity re-
turned 70 work pending the considera-
tion Of the ncw scale.
The miners q Christian County
Coal compauy'a milne az Taylorville,
lll., who have been on strike since
the strike Ger that district was agreed
upon. returned 90 work
Two hundred moiders and pattern.
makers Of the Fore River Shiphulld.
ing and Engine company at Quincy.
Mass. Joined the strikers. making a
total Of 5000 men now idle
The dissatisfaction of the sheet and
tin-plate workers over the reduction
OF rs per cent seems 90 be increasing.
The Griffith plant al Waynosburg. Pa.
has closed Others win follow.
The United States Commissioner OF
Education says school teachers aver
ago per month $40 for men and $40
for women. Twenty-eight per cent Of
the teachers Of the country are men.
At Lawrence. Mass. the Arlington
cotton and worsted mills viii curtail
production. operating but four days a
week. because OF lack Of orders. Fit
teen hundred operatives are affected.
The Indiana block coal miners. Dis
trics No. s. have voted 70 reject the
proposition OF the operators for two
years contract under last years con.
ditions. with a 5 per cent reduction in
wages.
Bakers Joint executive board has
received word from San Francisco
that many bakers there are unem-
pioyed and warns fellow workers Of
New England against going to Cali
fornia.
The Amalgamated Association OF
Sheet Iron Steel and Tin Workers.
Theodore Skaters union. has accept
Cd wage reduction OF IS per cent
The cut is operative until the last
day Of June Of this year.
On June next the Order Of Rail-
way Telegraphers viii celebrate its
eis, eenth anniversary. having been
organized at Cedar Rapids IN 1856.
Last month 1910 new members were
added to the orders rolls.
Brush Makers international union
has requested organized labor 70 as
sist that union In having the authori-
ties revoke their determination 70 in
troduce the manufacture OF brooms
into the Minnesota state prison.
From a toller in the machine shops
Of the Chicago. Burlington & Quincy
to the presidency OF the Chicago.
Rock Island q Pacific railway. which
IS one OF the Burlinaion's chief com
petitors. is the career Of b. l.. Win
chell.
An American steam thrashlng ma
chine has been taken into Damascus.
which Is said to be the oldest city In
the world. On its way to Damascus
the heavy machine broke every bridge
and attracted the attention Of the en-
tire country.
A strong fight against unionism Is
now being made by the Drlper Ma
chine company Of Hopedale. Mass.
Employees are being compelled to sign
an agreement that they viii not join
a union as long as they remain In the
employ Of the company.
Dressler 4 Hollender. contractors
Of Perth Am5oy. n j.. obtained a YER
dict for $500 damages against the
walking d,.rgato and members Of the
Bricklayers and Plasterers Protec-
tive union Of Perth Amboy for dam
ages resulting from a b0scott.
The general strike and lockout Of
photographers was officially declared
on. the unions by a clear majority
having voted for the arbitration
agreement recently submitted In a
referendum vote. The 10000 or more
idle employees throughout the country
we're ordered to return TO work
Two hundred boilermakers en-
pioyed in the kcal shops Of the New