The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-06-03
NEWS OF THE LABOR WORLD.
Items Of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.

Sources.
New Orleans has nineteen negro Ia
Dor unions, numbering 1000 men.
Congress killed the eight-hour bill,
laying the matter over until the next
sesslbn.
Thou shalt not take thy neighbor's
Icb." William Hard says that is the
lflth commandment Of unionism.
At Denver, Colo. Justice Hynd dis
charged William d. Raymond, secre-
tary Of the Western Federation OF
Miners, charged with desecration OF
the flag.
President Frank Buchanan OF the
international Association Of Structural
Iron Workers has decided TO make
New York the future national head
quarters.
Arrangements for the 1904 annual
convention of the A. F. of L. in San
Francisco have already begun. The
Central Labor Council has appointed
all its committees for the affair
At a general meeting Of glass bottle
manufacturers Of the country, held at
Pittsburg. 1t was decided to close all
factories on June Is for ninety days,
and to demand a reduction in wages.
According to Secretary O'Brien of
the bridge and structural iron work
ers' local of Chicago, 23.6 per cent Of
the members Of that local we're either
killed or injured while at work during
1903.
Cigarmakers international Union
paid benefits for all causes during
1903 Of $s74,s6S.03. The grand total
Of benefits paid in the last twenty
four years and two months is $780,
o51.5S.
James Short. executive board mem
Der Of the Stone Cutters National
Union in the Chicago district, ar
ranged a settlement of the stone cut
ters' troubles at Joliet and secured
the eight-hour workday.
The national convention Of packing
trades unions directed the executive
board to carry out a policy of remov-
ing women from all places where the
character Of the work Is of a kind
fairly considered as degrading to
women.
The Santa Fe railway company was
granted temporary injunction against
the striking machinists OF the Santa
Fe shops in Argentine. Kas., by Judge
Holt Of Kansas City. Kas. The order
.restrains the strikers from interrer-
ing with the men who are now work
ing.
All the large shipyards in the me
tropolitan district OF New York. ex-
cept that Of the Boston Dry Dock com
pany in Brooklyn and the yard of Tit
jen & Lang in Hoboken, are tied up
as the result of a strike of the Broth
erhood of Boilerrnakers and Iron Ship
builders.
OF 923 unions making returns to the
American Federation of Labor for
March, with an aggregate member
ship Of 114.500. there were IA per
cent out of employment. In the pre-
ceding month out of a membership u
u.s. .4O6 there were 7Si per cent out of
employment.
The drivers district executive board
decided to advise the miners of the
Ontario & Western company to refuse
to obey the company's order. to work
a 10-hour day at the Ontario, Rich
mond No. 3. and the Johnson mines.
The company promised them an extra
hours pay daily.
The Indiana coal miners refused TO
contribute to the strike fund for the
Colorado miners and a committee sent
to collect money win return this week
empty handed An article attacking
John Mitchell and printed in the or
gan OF the Western Federation is re
sponsible for this attitude Of the
miners here.
Union workingmen and women of
Chicago who desire to communicate
with their employers or members OF
other unions viii find it difficult to do
so hereafter, for the Chicago FEEDER
alton Of Labor has placed a boycott
on all telephone directories because
they are printed by R. R. Donneily &
Sons Company. The reason for the
boycott is that the company refuses
70 employ union bookbinders.
The long pending legal contest be
tween the Burns-Hicks and Hayes fac
tlons Of the Knights OF Labor was de-
cided in favor Of the former by JUS
,uce Anderson of the District Equity
court. The decision declares Henry
A. Hicks and Simon Burns, success
sively general master workmen. to
have been the legal and proper OH
GERS Of the order, and in a sweeping
way upholds their contentious.
Closed shop agreements. with labor
unions. were given a body blow by the
Appellate court at Chicago In an
opinion handel down by Judge Adams
the court said: ~The agreements in
question would. If executed. tend to
create a monopoly in favor Of mem
bers Of the unions to the exclusion Of
workmen not members Of such unions.
and are in this respect unlawful Con.
tracts tending 70 create a monopoly
arc voidH
II any arbitration law has any
points of merit then it seems to me
that the net recently fassed by the