The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-01-11
NEWS OF THE LABOR WORLD.
Items Of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.

Sources.
Rochester, N. Y, labor unions are
endeavoring to raise funds to erect a
labor temple in that city.
The Switchmen's Union of North
America will hold its convention in
! indianapolis May Is, 1905.
Firemen of Chicago have organized
themselves into a body for the pur-
pose of renewing their fight to secure
shorter hours
The Carnegie Steel Company and
the American Tin Plate and Sheet
Steel Company have ordered every
furnace and plant put in operation.
which will require almost 5000 addi-
tional men.
The realization that the men Of or
ganked labor have a defense fund
which can be concentrated upon any
given point to protect the rights and
interests of our fellow-workers has
had a palpable and beneficlent effect.
BY Samuel Gonpers.
A proclamation has been issued by
Gov. Toole of Montana declaring the
adoption of the amendments to the
state constitution relating to child
labor and the eight-hour law voted on
at the recent election, and these are
now in full force and effect.
A call is out to hold conference
of governments for the protection CT
the workers against accidents in May.
1905, at Switzerland. The British and
continental governments will be repre-
sented, and the United States and
Russia will also fall into line
Settlements have been made with
the Jewish bakers union by nine of
the thirteen Chicago employers at
whose shops strikes have been on.
In consequence of the settlement the
employers failed to prosecute five
union men, arrested charged with acts
OF violence.
The General Confederation of Labor
of France at it's recent congress in
Bourges considered the question of the
union label. BY a large majority 1t |
was decided that, instead of a label |
for each trade, there should be a sin.
gle label for products of all sorts /
made by members Of affiliated unions. |
Those who join an organization |
with the expectation Of having their |
wages Immediately increased. or their
wrongs righted at once, or that they /
will at once receive large dividends
on the amount invested, are not the
desirable members, nor the ones upon
whom the order can depend for its
ultimate success.-Railway Clerk.
At meeting of the New York Cen
trail Federated union delegates. repre-
senting more than $50 600 workers in
the miscellaneous trades, they have
appointed a committee of ten to fight
employers who insist on the "open
shop" in compliance with the senti-
ments expressed at the recent Citi.
zens' Industrial alliance convention.
The strike of the miners at the
Century Coal Company's plant at
Tower Hill, ILL.,. involving 300 men.
has been settled by a committee con
sisting of state officials, the United
of America and the coal
The settlement is consid-
cred a victory for the miners. the
operators agreeing to pay the Pana
scale.
The Bulletin OF the National Metal
association is to be rechristen-
ri and will appear Jan. / as the Open
Shop. The policy, however, will re-
main the same, which will be ar al.
ack on labor unions for what they
lave done, and also for what they
rave failed to do In other words. it
will continue to give it to them go
ng and coming"
The child labor law Of Illinois is !
low enforced in all the coal mines OF
he state. Under the Interpretation Z
f the Law made Ly Factory Inspector q
Edgar 7. Davies and sustained by the .
outs no boys under 1G years Of age \
viii be permitted to work in the 1
hines. 1t is estimated the enforce. O
aent of the statute will take $500 Il
oys away from employment under. Il
round &
e. A. Rysdon, Chicago contractor. O
'ho has fought the Sheet Metal Work. D
RS union In courts and outside of q
hem for the past two years. owned Il
p few days ago that he had enough a
1t, and signed the union scale He q
now employing union men exclu- "
vely. Sometimes 1t costs az employ Is
: a lot of money to find ont where OF
Is best interests lie, but he usually Ct
cts there in time. fc
Waldo W. Valentine, clerk in the nj
oney order department Of the New e,
ork postofiice, has been suspended ai
NJ characterization. In consequence q
'e postmaster general 1t is under. W.
ood. viii have test case before him III
lortly, as the claim Is made that Val. IA
ltine's refusal to work more thar tr
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