The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-11-28
NEWS OF THE LABOR WORLD.
Items Of Interest Gathered from Many

attempted to form an organization TO
keep up prices. but have failed.
The third annual convention OF the
International Hod Carriers and Build
ing Laborers' Union Of America Will
meet in Minneapolis, beginning Jan. l,
1905.
The odd Fellows Of New York state
in their recent convention voted down
the resolution to place the label OF
the Allied Printing Trades on all print
ed matter.
Application for membership in the
Journeymen BARRIERS International
union by women BARRIERS was denied
at the recent convention of that body
at Louisville, Ky.
Buffalo has a new labor organiza-
tion composed of shoe sinners and por-
ters working throughout the city, and
known as the Shoe Sinners and Bar
Der Shop Porters' union.
The Central Labor Union Of Indian
apolis has a committee at work to
purchase a park for the use Of the
labor organizations Of Marion county,
Indiana, to be used for picnics and
labor demonstrations.
While women are invading nearly
all OF the employments belonging to
men, milliners, both here and abroad,
report a growing difficulty in finding
girls willing to devote themselves to
the art Of making hats.
The workman's compensation act
recently passed by the British parlia-
ment has caused an appreciable in
crease in pauperism, as employers
now refuse to retain old workmen
who are slightly deaf or short-sighted.
In thirty years 1.391.076 Italians
have come to this country. Until 1890
the percentage of women was less
than Is, but now it has increased to
80, indicating that the immigration
has a marked tendency to become per
manent.
A large per cent of the striking
haisting engineers have decided to
accept a reduction of sos per cent in
wages and become members of the
miners organization. This means that
the disintegration of the national
brotherhood of hoisting engineers has
come.
An international union is to be
formed of carpet cutters, layers and
measurers Of the United States and
Canada. A convention has been called
to meet in Washington, d. c., Dec,
15 The new organization will prob
ably be called the Carpet Workers In
ternational union.
Charles L. Eidlitz, president Of the
New York Building Trades Employers
association, was sued for $4,000 dam
ages by the United Brotherhood Of
Carpenters and Joiners of America
which alleges that the carpenters in
having been locked out since August
s, have been deprived Of an opportun
ity to earn a livelihood.
The Produce Peddlers' Drivers
Union Of Chicago, the latest union oi
teamsters organized there. is CROWNS
rapidly, and has q membership o
nearly 1000. There are said to BE-
5000 men in the city who drive ped
dlers' wagons, and it is the intention
of the teamsters to have them all il
their organization by Jan. /.
Mitchell day" set apart as a day
OF celebration by the anthracite min
ers of Pennsylvania in honor of Johr
Mitchell, president of the United Mine
Workers Of America, was generally
observed throughout the hard Goa
region Oct. 20. Parades we're held il
Scranton, Hazleton. Mahanoy City
Wilkesbarre, and other places.
At the recent conventions of tn,
Canadian Trades and Labor Congress.
and the Canadian Manufacturers as
sociation, held at the same time, (
decision was arrived at to have I;
meeting take place between the dele
gates of both bodies in an effort t
bring labor and capital of Canada il
closer relations. The meeting will TAX,
4 place next month.
Although $4,000 cotton mill opera
tives in Fall River have been on strik,
for the past two months, the quarterly
police statistics show that drunken
ness has decreased 25.S per cent com
pared with the corresponding quarlel
the police records at the Chicago
stock yards show similar results dur
ing the recent strike there.
John Floresch, vice president Of thl
Amalgamated Meat Cutters an,
Butcher Workmen, has just returne,
to Chicago from an organization tour
He organized new locals Of butche
clerks at Olney. Champaign and Alton
Mr.. Florssch expects to start on
again within a month, having returne,
home to vote. The butcher clerks al
over the United States are anxious It
become union members.
According to a statement Issued b.
Slason Thompson Of the Railwa,
News Bureau the compensation Of rail
way employees in the United State
during the year ending June 80, 1904
approximated sS3o.00o.0OO as agains
s465, ,601 ,5S1 in the fiscal year 1S96-97
an increase Of 64.S9S.As. OF NOR