Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1904-04-23
NEWS OF THE LABOR WORLD
items of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.

Sources.
The miners of the central Pcnnsyl.
vania coal field will accept a reduc.
ton in wages.
The Amalgamated Woodworkers' In
ternational union will hold general
convention about June 20.
The Building Trades Council at
Danville, ILL.,, has been reorganized
and granted charter by the National
Building Trades Council.
Thirty-three shoe manufacturers of
Lynn. Mass, have locked out 500 turn
workmen. and unless a settlement is
reached 5000 men will soon be idle.
The Illinois coal miners of the north
ern field have expressed formally
their objections to the reduction in the
wage scale, and the matter is far from
ratification.
The International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers. by majority of
4.2O5 against. voted down PROPOSE
ton TO join the Structural Building
Trades Alliance.
The Cigarmakers' international
union has discovered the headquarters
in Pennsylvania of gang of counter
feiters who have been printing and
circulating bogus labels OF the organ
izations.
On December 81 the 655 trade
unions in Great Britain had a mem
Dership of 1.604.S12. and funds
amounting to e5.O16.4OS. The income
for the year was e2.441,427, and the
expenditure e2.0JS.630.
we don't owe dollar to any one
and we have $4,000 in our treasury
says the editor OF the stone cutters
official magazine. We have paid 81
200 in death benefits in the last month
and claims of every character are
paid by return mail
Carpenters unions in Baltimore
have sent out warning 10 all sister
locals that there is no building boom
on there and that it will be several
months before the actual work Of re-
building the city will begin. Union
men are advised TO stay away from
Baltimore at this time.
The National Civic Federation is
sending out circular letters to all ma
tional unions asking for copies of the
form of joint trade agreements made
in their respective crafts. II is the
Intention of the federation to prepare
a digest of the various forms of agree
ments in force. have them printed in
book form and circulated among en-
ployers and unions.
At the convention OF the Women's
Trade Union League of America it
was decided to put an organizer in
he field to organize unions of women |
wherever possible. A woman of ex-
will be selected and she will
let as an adviser wherever strikes of |
may take place.
John Mitchell. national president of |
he United Mineworkers CT America, |
will spend a greater portion of the
summer in Europe studying labor con-
Iitions there. He viii sail May >.
lay % he will attend the information
Il meeting OF miners at Paris and
alter a meeting nj miners ut Berlin.
A circular has lately been issued to
garment workers union. telling the
anger that customers run by buying
lothcs made in sweatshops. The
tory is told of Sir Robert Peel's
aughter. who died of typhoid fever.
by wearing a cloak that
al been made in an infected home.
The physicians OF the Hilltops dis
riot of Pittsburg Pa. are reported to
ave taken the initiative in the forma-
on OF a Physicians Protective asso-
Iation. the doctors union. Their ex-
mple has since been followed by the
ledical men of the South Side of the
moky City.
Labor union forces are rejoicing
YER the fact tIey may yet use the
oycott in Iowa. The house adopted
lie report Of the committee for indef-
tie Tostponement of the measure
-Ovidirg fine and imprisonment FOR
] persons conspiring to injure the !
is!uess OF another by establishing
.e boycott.
There are 1000 members in the |
ridge and Structural Iron Workers {
Mon Of Chicago. Last year eighteen {
them were killed and 11S injured. {