Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1904-05-14
NEWS OF THE LABOR WORLD.


Sources.
Canton, O., Will build 100000 labor
temple.
The carpenters have grown 10 1880
local unions, with a total membership
on July I, of 167 ,229 members.
The Boilermakers' and Sawyers' In
ternational Union will hold its annual
convention in st. Louis in June.
Wages of women VOL kers in Canada
have increased in recent years from
% to SO per cent more than men.
Membership in the Journeymen
Blacksmith organization has increased
an average of over 1000 per month in
the last year.
The strike on the Panama railroad
was brought to an end. most of the
Iaborers returning to work under the
old conditions
St Paul elevator conductors and
starters have been granted charter
by the International Union of Build
ing Employees.
Boston Cooks Union 328 was organ
lied in May, 1902, with charter list
of ten members. To-day it has an or
ganization of approximately 400.
-
East London is about 20, whereas in
the well-to-do districts of West Lon
don the average age is about SO.
jeremiah Shea, an old-time member
of the Chicago Horseshoers' Union,
| and second president of the organiza-
ton forty-two years ago, is dead.
For the first time in the history of
the copper region of the upper PENN
sula of Michigan an organization of
the copper miners is being formed.
The Cigarette Paper Workers I'm
ion, affiliated with the American Fed
Grafton of Labor. is the latest addi-
ton to the labor movement of San
Francisco.
The Trenton, N. J., rubber workers
strike is over, the fight being declar-
ed off and the men and women return
ing to work at the terms against
which they struck.
The latest report of the British
Amalgamated Society of Painters
shows an aggregate expenditure of
$11, 100000, and only one-eighth Of
this amount tor strikes.
Secretary John Onyun issued the
call for the twelfth annual conven-
ing Crafts Union to meet in Spring
field Wednesday, June 10.
Eighteen hundred Vermont en-
ployes in the stone sheds of Mont
pelier, Barre and vicinity were locked
out by the Barre Granite Manufacture
| ers' association, pending the outcome
of dispute between the tool sharpen
ers and the quarry owners.
The initiation fee in every carpen-
ters' union in Boston and vicinity has
| been raised to SO by vote of the dis
trict council of the twenty-eight
unions The new rates will go into
effect Immediately.
Frank Johnson, a striking union
| glassworker of Rochester, N. Y. was
shot and Killed by Joseph Finler, a
| private detective. Detective Finler is
in jail. Two other officers are held as
accessories to the crime.
Edward Boyce, former president of
the Western Federation of Miners, is
critically i'll at st. Vincent Hospital,
Portland. Oregon, where he under
went an operation for appendicitis.
His recovery is expected.
An attempt will be made to organ
anu
chauffeurs of Detroit, Mich. into a
local union. Local unions of chauf-
feurs now do business in Greater
New York. Chicago, Cleveland and
Buffalo.
Frank H. Mccarthy has been doing
very creditable work as the New Eng
land organizer of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor. Last week he add
ed another to his long list of unions
organized, that of the Iron and Brass
Clippers Union 1870.
An official statement, issued by
President Samuel Gompers of the
American Federation of Labor, in de-
Tense of the anti-iniunction bill now
before Congress, is being circulated
throughout the country by the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor.
The executive council of the A F.
of L. has approved the strike of the
union lumbermen in California. The
/ lumbermen have been on strike for
one year, which gives the struggle
rank with the longest protracted labor
disputes on record. The approval OF
the strike carries with it the benefits
guaranteed by the federation.
me OnlcdSO news mas a knockout
blow for the man who is always COM
planning of high dues" and wants
cheaper union. 1t says: You can get
more wind cut OF a ten-cent fan than
you can out of $40 one. and the
same may be said of ten-cent union
man."
The Boot and Shoe Workers Union
spent $404,322 last year as regular
union expenses One-quarter of this
went to the sick and bereaved and
about as much more was spent in the
support of strikes. The shoemakers
have spent a fortune to advertise
their label.