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subject to an emergency call, within hear
ing OF the means, mntterings, shrieks ana
rappings ~on the doors by the unfortunate
patients who placed in their care
The attendants and nurses are required
to purchase and wear uniforms while on
duty the uniforms being paid for out OF
their monthly earnings These uniforms
cost from s. to 49, and are often torn anu
destroyed by violent patients
The attendants and nurses are also re-
CURED to pay $o should a patient escape
from them while out walking.
The scale of wages now paid it is stated
ranges from s14 to $3.50 per month, with
board
A new style detective agency has re-
Gently been established in the city of Chi
cago The agency. it is reported. makes a
speciality of prying into the operations of
the labor unions and information bearing
on all movements and matters of the unions
Is furnished for $25 a week A circular
announcing the purposes of the agency has
been received in this city.
Word has been received at the offices of
the International Association of Machnists
10 the effect that the machinists of the
anthracite coal regions have inaugurated
a movement to abolish the piece work sys-
tenn In that section. 1t was the piece work
controversy that was responsible for the
extended strike among the machinists. pat
tern makers, boiler-makers and like work
men on the Southern Pacific railroad 1t
Is the belief of the machinsts in the coal
region that the piece work system will
cause the trade to deteriorate, increase the
hours of labor and reduce wages
The machinists have prepared scales OF
pay, which will become effective May 1
next. 1t Is claimed that the machinists are
the lowest paid of all workmen of the
metal trades. The machinists have de-
termined to make g. decisive stand against
the piece work system.
The Cigarmakers' International Union
mas discovered the headquarters in Penn
sylVania of gang of counterfeiters who
have been printing and circulating bogus
labels of the organizations.
An organization of employers represent
ing an invested capital of billion dollars
IS to be formed In New York city.
Labor unions throughout Texas have
started a movement in opposition to the
state penitentiary board leasing conyicts
TO coal operators to work in the mines
Members of the board claim the right to
lease the convicts in this way, and say
that the Sl,20O received as wages monthly
from them materially helps to reduce the
taxes of the state. ~
The Central Labor Union, in a series of
resolutions adopted at recent meeting of
that body. pledged its support to Bakers
and Confectioners' Union, mo. 49, in Its
contention with the Bakers Association,
which has eliminated In an application to
the courts for an order restraining the
business agent Of the bakers union from
entering their places of business.
The resolutions claim the right of agents
representing unions to exercise the duties
imposed upon them by their organization,
and condemns the action OF the employers
In attempting to legally restrain the union
from exercising privilege which is neither
in intent nor act unlawful or Injurious to
the business interests of the, employer.
The question of the formation of a
national body of BUILDING trades, to be
known as the Structural Building Trades
Alliance of America" is being submitted
by the various national organizations Inter
ested to the subordinate ,unionsa OF the ten
trades to which the matter has been re-
ferred, so far as reported. four have de-
cided favorably to the proposition. The
recent convention, Of the Bricylayers and
Masons International Union decided to SUBJ
init the question to the subordinate unions
of that craft. which will be voted upon In
June.
The electrical workers. it Is said, have re-
jeeted the proposition by a large majority,
which. SO far as can be ascertained, is the
only organization having voted which re-
fuses to affiliate.
1t is stated that the local Master Painters
Association and Brotherhood Of Painters
Union, o6S, nave failed to agree upon the
terms of a contract for the current year.
The employers. 1t is said, desire a renewal
of the contract which expired by limitation
March 1, 1904. To this the painters are not
inclined to agree, as the former contract
restricted them in their relations to other
organizations Of the building trades.
The question of disagreement involves the
relation of the Painters Union to the Al
lied Council Of Building Trades as required
by the arbitration agreement between the
council and the local Employers Associa-
ton, which provides for the adjustment of
contentious by board of arbitration rep
resenting the council and association I'm
der the former contracts as held by the
employers the painters organization was
prohibited from cooperating with other
trades as required by the rules of the AL
lied Council Of Building Trades, which was
not satisfactory to the allied organizations
and was the cause of much contention.
1t Is stated that at the request of the
painters union the matter of contract has
been referred to the arbitration board of
the council. which will endeavor to secure
an agreement which will include the plan of
arbitration provided in the agreement be-
tween the Allied Council of Building Trades
and the Employers Association.
1t Is also stated that the local union of
painters has submitted to the employers a
demand for $3.50 per day from May 4, 1904.