Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-12-29
Industrial Notes.


In the United States and Canada the
International Typographical Union has
secured the eight-hour work-day in 2S9
cities.
Boston United Hatters' Unions and
6 have adjusted the price lists for the
year with every local manufacturing
firm. The main changes from the exist
ing bills of prices are largely on special
styles for next season.
Marble Cutters and Settlers Union SO
reports that progress is being made to-
wards an amicable adjustment of the
unions request for an INCREASE in the
minimum scale to $3.50 a day. The
present rate is So.
Slate and Soapstone Workers Union
has begun considering the ACCESSIBILITY of
making fixed minimum rate Of wages
for all lines of work in that trade. At
present the union has a rule by which
no one can work for less than $3.50 a
day. The wages paid run from $3.50 to
$3.50 day for various lines.
William J. Spencer, secretary-treas-
urer of the Structural Building Trades
Alliance of America, has sent out re-
port to affiliated crafts in which he de-
clares the alliance is rapidly gaining in
strength. The last charters granted
were at Hot Springs, Ark; Englewood,
N. j.; Springfield, Mass, and Chi
cago, III.
The United States Supreme Court re-
Gently affirmed the decision of the SUI
preme Court of the State of Missouri
unfolding the validity of the State law
which fixes eight hours as the length of
a days work in the mines. The super
intendent of mine held workmen for
longer period and was proceeded against
in the State court, it being test case.
A press dispatch says: ga British
Columbia miner has been fined $3.50 by a
judge for working more than eight hours
a day. Because he worked half an hour
longer than the law allows, P. Zanani,
a miner employed in the collieries of
James Dunsmuir at Cumberland, B. c.,
has been found guilty by Judge Abrams
Of violating the eight-hour law and fined
$780,"
1t was an eight hour committee who
gave the union printers the battle cry,
''We propose to sell to the employer
eight hours out of the twenty four, and
we will do as we please with the remain
ing sixteen" An equally inspiring shib-
boleth is that enunciated by the Label
Committee of the union, which says,
"Let those employers who are content to
employ non-union men be content with
the patronage of non-union men,"
The Court of Appeals in the State of
New York rendered decision recently
that a contract between an employer
and labor union to employ only union
men was legal and binding, and the par
ty who violated such a contract could
not shirk responsibility on the plea that
such contract was contrary to public
policy In the particular case in point
a clothing firm declared for the open
shop and broke the closed shop contract
it had with the United Garment Work
ers.
More than 1000 men are employed at
the locomotive shops in Reading, Pa.
The monthly payroll amounts to a little
more than $4,000. When additions,
now in course of construction, are COM
pleted, work will be given to at least 500
more men.
AS a result Of the efforts of organized
labor in Holyoke, Mass, the working
people won a victory at the polls in the
late State election, and Senator-elect
Daniel d. Mahoney will represent them
Ia the State House in Boston. Mr.. Ma
honey has long been identified with the
labor movement.