The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-05-18
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Grain handlers and elevator men in
Cincinnati, Ohio, are forming a union.
The blast furnace workers of the coun-
try receive an advance in wages ranging
from 10 to 1919 per cent May /.
An effort is being made to form en-
Actors Union in England. Every actor
and actress in the country is being asked
to join.
Canadian Workingmen's Educational
Association has passed resolutions de-
handing of the government free and COM
pulsory education.
The National Association of Steam
and Hot Water Filters and Helpers has
again been refused a charter from the
American Federation of Labor.
All the contracts of the different labor
unions have been agreed to by the Lake
Carriers Association and the labor board
has been all cleaned for the 1905 season.
An effort viii be made at the meeting
of the Montreal (Canada) City Council
to reach a proposed bylaw which asks
that a superannuation fund be started
for civic employees.
The referendum vote of the Brother
hood of Carpenters and Joiners on the
amalgamation of the Amalgamated So
ciety of Carpenters and Joiners was
against the plan.
A new division of the Order of Rail-
way Conductors of America was organ
lied at st. Mary's Pa, recently, among
employees exclusively on the Pittsburg,
Shawmut and Northern railroad.
Carpenters Union at San francisco,
CAL, has unanimously passed resolutions
calling for enlarging and extending the
scope of the Chinese exclusion. act so as
to include japanese and Koreans.
Dues paid by each member of the
United Society of Brushmakers of the
United Kingdom are 43 cents a week, or
$1.73 a month, while the average pay in
the trade does not exceed So week.
United Metal Workers International
Union has voted to withdraw from the
A. f. of L. The organization. which is
not a very large one, was dissatisfied
with several decisions made against it
in jurisdiction matters.
]. G. Butler, Jr., chairman of the Bes-
semer Pig Iron Associa ton, says that out
of the 1913 furnaces using Lake Superior
ore, on April 1, 173 were in blast, being
90 per cent of the total capacity in blast,
an increase of 2 per cent during the
month.
The Amaigamated Association of Iron,
Steel and Tin Workers is waging the
battle Of its existence in the Calumet
region. The association had complete
control of all the steel mills in that dis
trict, as well as those in Joliet and Mil
waukee, before the great strike in 1902
At that time local lodges of that section
refused to participate, and as a conse-
quence lost their charters. Only one
lodge remains in the territory included
by East Chicago, Hammond and Indiana
Harbor, and that one is threatened with
extinction.
Michael Donnelly, president of the
Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher
Workmen, has returned from an organ
ization trip through the packing centers,
and he nays that matters look more hope
full for the butchers than they have since
the strike of last year. In East st.
Louis the butcher workmen have got
fair organization again, and at Fort
Worth, Texas, the men will soon be
as well organized as they were before the
strike. Only six locals are left in the
stock yards at Chicago, but they are
steadily increasing in strength. More
than 80 per cent Of the sheep butchers
are again in the union