Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-09-15
NEWS OF THE LABOR WORLD.
Items Of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.

| Sources.
The Switchmon's Union Of North
America will meet in indianapolis In
October
The District OF Columbia legalized
Labor day by act OF congress approved
June 90, 1894.
After periods of irregularity two cot
ton mills in the Blackstone valley
started up on full time. employing
1900 hands.
There was big boom In the rail-
road telegraphers' union In July. 12,777
new members having been initiated
during that month.
Builders and laborers to the number
of about 1900 are on strike in Toronto
for an increase in their wages from 20
TO 90 cents an hour.
The headquarters of the western
federation of miners, now In Denver,
is to be removed to Lead, S. D., ac-
cording to information from the west.
The Girard Coal company of Spring
field, ILL.,, has closed its mine, locking
out some 800 men, owing to trouble
between the superintendent OF the
mine and the miners.
A. =. of l.. reports that seventeen
new local unions, nearly all OF which
have withdrawn from the American
Labor Union are now a1iliated at
Butte and Anaconda, Mont.
A curtailment OF production because
OF the condition of the market has
been announced at the Lancaster cot
ton mills at Clinton, Mass. One thou
sand operatives will be laid off.
Forty.six local unions of the United
Garment Workers Of America In I'LL
nsis have sent protest to Gov. Yates
against placing a clothing making fac
tory in the Chester penitentiary
These locals have 10000 members.
The custom of fining contractors FOL
any violation of agreements or work
ing rules Is in vogue in st. Louis, anc
the unions are powerful enough to en-
force the payment of any assessment
made by them against a contractor.
Two thousand cloak makers wen,
on strike at Cleveland, Ohio. Increase
In wages, recognition of the union anc
CLOSED" shops are demanded. Own
ers of number Of factories were will
ing to grant the increase, but declined
tho CLOSED" shop demand.
The blue paper union LABEL of the
Brotherhood of Leather Workers OF
horse goods was abolished at the re
: cent convention. and in its stead ;
steel stamp OF appropriate design vii
be stamped upon the product of the
members OF that organization working
, In union shops.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
, gineers is agitating the abolition OF OF
change in the present system o.
mail cranes by which sacks of mai
are caught while the train rushes
, through a small town. "A number o.
engineers have been struck and killed
, recently by the device.
, The cost to the unions of holding 9
, convention Is from $1,000 to $4,000
: It Ia believed by the anti-convention
. lists that the large amount which coult
, be saved by reducing the number o.
, conventions-or by abolishing then
> aItogether-could be used to grea
. advantage in other directions.
. The stagnation In the coal fields
= along the Norfolk Western railroad II
a West Virginia is rapidly disappearing
Last week more than 500 new miners
a were put to work and this week will
q see double that number of men givel
= employment. The chief increase Il
!. In the Thacker and Elkhorn fields.
n Perhaps the most important bust
> ness transacted during the Interna
4 tional Longshoremen and Marine
Transport Workers association con
vention was the adoption of resolu
tion instructing the executive board t.
t issue charters to bodies OF marine en-
+ Kineers which may apply for afilia
@ ton.
q The United Hatters Of America
a which, together with the America
?. Federation of Labor, have been sue
|. for $4,000 damages and their proper
d " attached for boycotting THE proc
q uct OF Connecticut hat-making cor
Il Germs, because nonunion workers ar
d employed, have lost the FIRST case /
n court.
n Two hundred coal miners went on
n on a strike at the United States Goa
mines ut Sturgis, Ky. 1t Is said NOR
may follow. The company is maxim
efforts to install nonunion labor. A
u the coal mines at Sturgis have bee
lc strictly union. The United State
ID mine closed down on account of tn
le strike.
r. Word comes from England tina
Of Peter Curran. the well-known Englis
n labor leader, who represented tn
70 British Trade Union Congress in tn
D. American Federation of Labor as
c. fraternal delegate, some years age
Is will be present at the internatlonf
1t peace conference which will conven
Is In Boston In October.
Cardinal Satalli, who returned I