The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1904-08-11


in Philadelphia in August. 1883. Pre-.
>ious to that time several attempts
were made To unite the separate local
unions of tailors throughout the coun
try. but without success.
The two factions of window glass
workers which have been holding ses.
sions in Cleveland formally agreed
upon amalgamat on and met a. one
body. The new organization will be
known as the Amalgamated Window
Glass Workers of America.
The appointment is announced of
J. &. Skemp of San Francisco. third
vice president of the Brotherhood of
Painters and Decorators of America,
as secretary-treasurer of that Organi-
az,ion. This appointment is to fill
the vacancy caused by the recent
death Of Michael =. Carrick. and has
been indorsed by the executive board
of the national body.
A strike of 10000 textile workers
has begun. BY total vote of l,51O
TO 1886 the mill workers unions of
Fall River voted to walk out i'm pro-
test against "A l2h per cent reduc
ton in wages. meeting of the ex.
ecutive committee of the United Tex
tile Workers of America was held
at which it VAS voted to sanction
whatever action might be taken by
the unions.
=. T. Barry of Boston was re-
elected International president OF the
theatrical stage employees alliance.
The convention, which was held at
Milwaukee, decided that i'm any fights
against theatrical managers every ef.
fort would be made not to involve
men from the travelling companies.
The convention gave Springfield the
jurisdiction over Westfield. although
Holyoke is nearer.
The Pennsylvania railroad has I'm.
der consideration plan by which
thousandsOf its employees may become
proprietors of small farms. The
scheme contemplates the parceling out
OF desirable land belonging to the rail.
road company along the various lines
of tracks and permitting the free use
OF the land. In France, where $1,000
nave SUCH HS,
the plan has worked successfully.
Five thousand miners from Spring
Valley, LaSalle, Peru, Oglesby, Ladd,
Seatonvilie, Marquette. Depue. and
Dalzell assembled in Spring Valley.
H., July is, and took part In dem
OnstratiOn GenuEciatOry of Gov. Pea.
body Of Colorado. There were 10000
Do Nod
denounced in English. French, Italian,
Lithuanian and Polish by the several
| speakers. Resolutions were passed
requesting President Roosevelt to in
terfere in the Colorado miners strike.
One permanent result of the strike
conditions i'm the building trades at
| Detroit will be the number of new
| firms that have started into existence.
| These new master plumbers, paint.
| ers and sheet metal workers and
uLionists, who have had enterprise to
start i'm and capture some OF the work
that was going begging" during the
strike. The venture proved so profit
able that they continued their own
shops after the strike was ended, hir-
competing with their former employ.
ers.
Owing to lack of demand all coal
mines in the Eighth Ohio district.
largely owned by Cleveland operators.
have been put upon half time. The
district covers the southeastern pOr-
ton Of the state and Is the most pro-
| Guctive of the Ohio fields. Eight
thousand men are affected by the cur
tailment of operations. The action OF
the operators is the result of an al
most unprecedented stagnation in the
business. ShutdOwns are not con
! fned 10 this district alone, but are eX