The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-05-25
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Buffalo grain elevators suspended
operations for an indefinite period and
200 "inside men" were thrown out cf
employment
Brewery workers of Toronto to the
number of nearly 200, and including
drivers, helpers. stablemen, laborers,
bottlers, and cellar men, are on a
strike
Secretary McEwen, Of the Mime
sofa State Federation Of Labor, has
issued the call for that body to meet
in annual convention in New Ulm,
June 13.
Brockton Central labor union has
just paid President Emmett T. Walls
great tribute by re-electing him
president for the fourteenth consecu-
tive time
NJ. Patrick CarricIS, general secre-
tary-treasurer Of the Brotherhood Of
Painters. Decorators and Paperhang-
ers of America. died at Lafayette,
Ind. from erysipeas.
The Bakers and Confectioners In
ternational Union issued its first char
ter to a local union Of the craft in
Porto Rico last week. The local be-
gins with 72 members.
Between II 900 and 1900 coal min
ers in the eastern portion Of Ohio,
subdistrict No. 5, went on strike be-
cause Of their failure to reach an
agreement with the operators.
The National Association Of Cloth
iers, at its recent convention in Phil
adeIphia. made plans for a national
labor or employment bureau, with a
view to enforcing the open shop
principle
E. J. Ingersoll. of Aerkimer, n. Y,
has issued a challenge to ths labor
unions Of New York to meet him Ia
debate, either through the press or
orally, as to the rights Of organized
labor to exist.
The Building Trades Council e Gin
clnnati at a recent meeting took the
initiatory steps to form and maintain
a large financial defense fund, to be
not less than S50000. and may exceed
that figure within year.
The greatest increase in wages
since the organization Of unions In
Iowa is found in the case Of printers,
whose gain is l23 p per cent The
cigarmakers have reduced their hours
the greatest. 57.27 per cent.
The Kansas supreme court declared
void the statute which makes it un-
lawful to discharge an employe be-
cause he belongs to a labor organiza-
ton, and which provides for the re-
covery of damages for the discharge.
The Chicago bakers strike has been
settled. The union yielded its demand
that no work should be performed on
the five legal holidays of the year and
agreed to the usual amount of holiday
work, with pay for the hours of work
only, instead Of the full pay, as de-
manded
In consequence OF the action of a
large number Of the smaller bakeries
in signing the new working schedule,
from 300 to 400 bakers of the 1000
who struck in Boston returned to
their places. About 100 Of the small
er concerns now have signed the new
schedule.
Abous 5000 Philadelphia workmen
employed in the building trades were
rendered idle as the result of strikes
ordered by local unions. The branches
affected are the elevator constructors,
cement fnishers, stone cutters, tile
layers and helpers, metallic lathers
and granite cutters.
Every machine shop of the Santa
Fe railway system from Chicago to
Albuquerque, N. NJ, was closed May
2. A lockout order was issued by the
railway officials. to head of a strike
order of the International Association
of Machinists 1t was estimated that
10000 men were Idle.
The annual report of Labor Com
missioner Mccormack of Indiana deals
with strikes and their causes. OF the
causes he says: Ninety per cent. OF
the strikes are due to the fact that
the employer has not been fair. or has
utterly refused to treat with his men,
It is not usually question Of wages
but Of humanity
Cigarmakers' official Journal leads
its editorial column with these two
expressions: Now. above all others,
it is a good time to keep cilol under
the collar" THE labor organizations
that are conservative and fair in their
demands will be successful Those
which make impossible demands will
meet with opposition and final de-
feat
Frank Morrison fills the RESPONSE
bic position Of secretary to the Ameri
can Federation Of Labor. the biggest
| organization in the world, at salary
of $1,000 a year. and John Lennon
acts as treasurer for the sum OF s10o
a year. At the last convention Len
non was offered higher salary and
refused II
President Graham. Of the American
Sheet and Tinnlate Company. notl
ied the Amalaamated Association Of
iron. Steel and Tin Workers. that the
8 per cent. relate which the tin work.
ers had been giving from their wages
had been suspended The Suspension
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