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tent workmen. to work at less than
the minimum rate is also included. The
awards apply to the carpenters and
joiners and operative bakers in the
Auckland district. and the Osborne
district carpenters and joiners. paint
ers and decorators.
Chicago union labor's new bank, to
be known as the Commonwealth Trust
and Savings Bank, has received the in
dorsement Of the state authorities.
State Auditor Mccullough issued a per-
NIT for its organization with capi-
tai stock Of 100000. The institution
in Chicago will be the second union la
Dor enterprise OF the kind in the Unit
ed States, the other being at Wash
ington. 1t will be controlled entirely
by union wage-earners.
The courts Of New York have decid-
ed that the closed shop is lawful. The
decision passed on thus: A contract
existed between union and an en-
ploying firm for closed shop. The
firm ignored the contract, broke it,
and the case went to the courts. It
was held that the contract was not
unlawful-that 1t violated no principle
OF right. II employer and employe
made such contract both were bound
by It until the term expired.
Judge ]. P. Gregory at Louisville;
KY, ruled in a $4,000 damage suit
brought against the OK Breeches Com
pany by women formerly employed by
the concern, that employers have the
right to list discharged workmen whom
they refused to take back and furnish
other companies with such lists, pro-
vided no Misrepresentation Of the facts
be made. The complainants alleged
that the defendant company had black
listed employees who were involved in a
strike.
The United States Steel corporation
Of which the Illinois Steel company Is
constituent company, has. according
to dispatch from indianapolis, begun
to break ground between Hammond
and Tolleston. Lake county, Ind, for
$30,000,000 plant, which. when run
ming at full capacity, will employ TO-
900 men. If these figures are correct,
Indiana will, within the next two years,
take the place now held by Illinois as
the greatest steel producing state in
the west.
Which was the first labor union or
ganized in the United States? The
statement is made in a number Of
exchanges that the first national trade
union was that Of the journeyman
printers, which was formed in 1850.
Although the printers are given credit
for having organized the first national
union, the tailors are said to have
formed the first local union in 1903.
The first local printers union came in
1881. The real beginning of the labor
movement in this country was an in
dustrial congress which was held in
1S45.-Shoe Worker
A number of veneer and panel
manufacturers from New York, Penn
sylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Ken
lucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, In
diana, Wisconsin. Michigan and Mis-
souri, held a preliminary meeting at
,innati, looking to permanent
organization Of their industries into a
national association, embracing $50
great and small plants throughout the
United States, at a meeting to be held
at Chicago, Dec. 10 and 20. The aggre-
gate capital invested in these plants
amounts to $15,O0O,O00 and the out
put runs into hundreds of millions in
value.
Nearly one thousand men and wo-
men employed in the shirt factory OF
Tutelman Brothers & Faggen, Phila.
delphia, are out on strike because the
firm refuses to reinstate number OF
men who, it is alleged, made trouble
in the factory. Several hundred girls
who had been on strilN for better
wages for a week we're notified by the
firm to report for work. The women
were told that about forty men who
had struck with them would not be
taken back, and then they declared a
general strike, which has grown to
such proportions that residents in the
lower section of the city are deeply
interested in the outcome.
If a majority Of the members at
large vote favorahly on propositions
now before them for action this
month. on and after May 1, 1906, the
international officers of the bricklay.
ers' and masons' international union
shall be elected by popular vote: all
amendments to the constitution shall
be adopted likewise; conventions of
the national union will be held every
two years, beginning in January, 1907;
only amendments offered by union
with the Endorsement of thirty unions
will be voted on at large; unions fail
ing to vote for officers will be fined IS,
and no candidates for office shall be
eligible for nomination unless he has
the Endorsement of not less than ten
unions in at least three states, terri
tories or provinces Of the United
| States or Canada.
The Canadian Trades Union Con-