The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-06-07
NEWS or THE LABOR WORLD
Items Of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.

eNSHo VI ihArfGota 0alfrCTS0 ITOIU HdIiJ
Sources.
The call for the twenty-third annual
convention of the Minnesota state fed
Grafton of labor to be held at Brainerd
June IL has been issued.
International President Glocklin of
the bookbinders' union has received
the government appointment o. labor
commissioner of the Dominion of Can
ada.
The Bakers Union Journal passed
Its twentieth anniversary last week
and had magnificent jubilee edition.
1t is printed in both English and Ger
man.
Detroit is to be the location OF the
international Offices of the amalga-
mated meat cutters and butcher work
mems unions. They are now at Syra-
case.
The United States bureau of navi-
cation has issued a statement showing
that S,210 men, or 1917 per cent of the
enlisted force of the navy, deserted
during that last year.
The drug clerks Of San Francisco
are rejoicing over the new bill passed
by the legislature regulating the max
imum workday to ten hours for six
consecutive days week.
The supreme court of Nevada has
decided that under the law of that
state no man may work more than
eight hours day in mines, smelters
or mills for the refining Of ores.
Clarence Smith has resigned as sec
retary-treasurer of the American
Labor Union. His health is breaking
down. His place has been filled by
John Riordan of Phoenix. British
Columbia.
Seceders from the Journeymen
Stone Cutters Association Oh America
and representatives of independent
unions met in Pittsburg to endeavor
to form a new national stone cutters
association.
The Grand Trunk Railway machin-
lists, $500 men, from Montreal to Port
Huron, Mich, went on strike for
signed agreement regulating the hours
of work, wages, apprentices and the
adjustment of differences.
In the circuit court at Detroit Judge
George S. Hosmer handed down de-
cision in the case of Martin Manphey
against the state prison board holding
that the state constitution prohibits
the teaching OF the trade of broom
making to the eonvicts in the prison
at Jackson. The case was brought by
Manphey in behalf of the broommak-
ers' union.
w. D. Mahon, president of the Anal
gamated Association of Street and
Electric Railway Employees OF Amer
lea, says that while most of the ma
tional labor unions lost in member
ship last year, the organization OF
which he is the head made substan-
.ial gains. He attributes much of the
success to the fact that he will not
sanction on the "open-shop' issue.
Gov. Pennypacker Of Pennsylvania,
las signed the bill creating a state
department. of police, the Garner bill
o abolish child labor in the mining
egions and the Delaney bill to abolish
.hild labor in factories and workshops
rhe Garner bill was drafted by Presi-
lent John Mitchell Of the Miners
lnion. The Delaney bill was also in
pired and urged by the labor unions.
A pension Of $S7 is allowed by the
government of New Zealand to the
ndigent aged who have inhabited the
ountry uninterruptedly for twenty
We years without any legal con-
emnation. Every old person who has
ONE to the pension age gets the en- :
ire pension. If he has a personal
evenue of s164 or more. For each
4.S0 above, the law diminishes his
ension accordingly. ii
Labor Commissioner Stafford OF {
alifornia in letter referring to in {
1rance, makes the following state I
tent: Il believe that If the public r
enerally knew the enormous amount /
I life Insurance paid annually by the j
mons. together with the benefits paid I
| cash along other lines, they would 4
salize that the destruction Of labor '
from a financial stand c
1int alone, would be a national Il
liamity." I