The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-06-20
NEWS OF THE LABOR WORLD.
Items Of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.


Items of Interest Gathered from Many
! Sources.
! The Order Of Railway Conductors, in
session at Portland, Oregon, reelected
Grand Chief Conductor E. e. Clark.
The convention of the Switchmen's
| Union Of North America adopted
resolution of sympathy on the death
of John Mitchell's daughter.
Starchers in seven collar factories
at Troy, N. Y. have struck, and 1000
other employees in other departments
have been Laid off as result.
The Order Of Railroad Conductors
has selected Memphis as the next con-
vention city and decided that when
| member withdraws his benefit insur-
ance ceases.
President Boyle called a strike at
the Oak Hill mine, in the Clinton, Ind,
field. The trouble resulted over the
checking of cars. Two hundred and
fifty men are out.
The Amalgamated Metal Workers
Union is the largest numerically, on
the European continent. 1t has a
membership of 19S,694, showing an in
crease of 38.929 members in 1904.
A settlement of the troubles of the
rival window glass workers organiza-
tions was effected in Pittsburg, Pa. a
consolidation into one body being
brought about and all litigation being
dropped.
At the convention of the Switch
mems Union of North America in In
dianapolis, Ind, an effort to bring
about the removal of the national
headquarters from Buffalo to Omaha
met with failure.
The strike of pile drivers employed
by the Chicago and Great Lakes
Dredging and Dock Company has been
settled, the company paying the men
70 cents per day more and the ten
hour day continuing
The American Federation Of Musi-
| clans at Detroit voted down resolu-
ton providing that full pay for four
musicians should be charged when a
pianist and drum player are engaged
for a dance orchestra.
During the month of March the
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
paid in death and disability claims the
sum of $11S,54543. The total paid by
the organization since adopting the
beneficial system is $10,S43,65213.
The endowment scheme of the Re-
tail Clerks international Union to as
sist the young women members in
starting housekeeping when they get
married has caused great deal of
favorable comment in labor circles.
The convention of the Amalgamated
Association of Steel, Iron and Tin
Workers finished consideration of the
western wage scale with the adoption
of the tin and sheet mill schedule,
which is on the basis of the 1904
scale.
At the convention of the Switch
mems Union OF North America in In
dianapolis the grand masters report
| showed the membership $4,000. John
T. MILAN OF Ashtabula, Ohio is a can
didate for grand master against the in
cumbent.
At the convention of the American
Federation Of Musicians the request
from the stage hands union for the
formation of some sort of alliance be-
tween the musicians and stage hands
unions was referred back to the local
unions for discussion and an express
sion Of opinion.
The thirteenth annual report of the
bureau of statistics of Maryland for
the year 1904, just issued. marks a
new and novel departure in such docu-
ments A number Of excellent photo
graphs are reproduced showing the in
terror of sweatshops before and after
the sweatshop law was enforced.
The convention of the Amalgamated
Association of Iron, Steel and Tin
Workers changed the system of pay
ing dues by which not less than / per
cent OF mans gross wages shall be
paid. The convention also instructed
the general officers to continue sup
porting the men now on strike for an
indefinite time
Independent longshoremen, in con-
vention in Seattle, have formed the
Pacific Coast Federation of Long
shoremen. The majority Of the mem
bers will withdraw from the National
Longshoremen, Marine and Transport
Workers Association, which, they as
sert, is involved in a ruinous conflict
with the seamen
Associate Justice Anderson Of the
Supreme Court Of the District Of Co
lumbia issued an order temporarily
enjoining John w. Hayes and his as
sociates. claiming to be officers OF the
order Of Knights Of Labor from per
forming the duties Of such Offices.
Among other acts specifically enioined