The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-12-30
LABOR NOTES FROM THE FIELD.

! 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 number of
exchanges that the first national
/, trade union was that of the Journey
men 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 print
ers' union came in 1881. The real
beginning of the labor movement In
this country was an Industrial con-
gress which was held in 1S45.-
Shoe Worker.
A number of veneer and panel
manufacturers from New York.
Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia.
Kentucky, Tennes North Caro-
lima, Indiana, wisconsin, Michigan
and Missouri held a preliminary
meeting at Cincinnati, looking to a
permanent Organization of their in
dustries 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 aggregate capital
invested in these plants amounts to
100000 and the output runs
into hundreds of millions in value.
Nearly one Thousand ment and wo-
men employed in the shirt factory of
Tutelman Brothers & Faggen. Phila-
delphia, are out on strike because
the fixn refuses to reinstate num-
Der Of men who. it is alleged, made
trouble in the factory. Several hun
dred girls who had been on strike
for, better wages for week were
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 general strike,
which has grown to such proportions
the city are deeply interested In the
outcome.
If majority of the members at
large vote favorably 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
a union with the Endorsement of thir-
ty unions will be voted on at large;
unions failing to vote for officers
will be fined IS, and no candidates
for office shall be eligible for nomi-
nation unless he has the endorsement
of not less than ten unions in at least
three states, territories or provinces
of the United States or Canada.
The Canadian Trades Union Con-
gress will meet at Victoria, B. c., in
1906, at the urgent request of the
sea coast unions The session recent
~ concluded at Toronto showed the
organization to be growing and to be
following the lines of legislation and
! agitation Endorsed and promulgated
by the American Federation of La
Dor. Canadian leaders are disap-
pointed because the American Fede-
ration of Labor did not vote to meet
either at Montreal or Toronto in 1906
| but they expect to renew the invita-
| ton next year. The Canadian con-
gress for 1905 contained 1876 dele
gates, of which 80 represented 81
international unions, 81 represented
13 central councils, and 5 represent
ed federal unions. The only fra
ternal delegate was from the -Ameri-
can Federation of Labor.