The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-03-10

cided to suspend work in tho 12O shops
at Quincy, Mass, represented In the
association. The lockout will directly
affect 1900 granite cutters.
A new political party directly chosen
from the workingmen of Great Brit
ain, and unlike any other party in any
Of the worlds parliaments, has come
to the front in the general elections
in the United Kingdom. In the House
of Commons it has 81 members nearly
ten per- cont of the total membership
1t is not like the Socialist party that
Is strongly represented in the various
legislatures of the rest of Europe. 1t
has gone to Westminster simply to
look after the interests of labor and
does not intend to bother itself with
trying to influence national legislation
not directly affecting the workingmen
of Great Britain.
A bill introduced in congress by Rep
resentative Foster of Vermont, pro-
poses the practical repeal of the Chin
ese Exclusion act. besides placing the
United States in the position of grant
ing to the Chinese government the abb
solute and exclusive authority to di-
rect the admission to the United States
of all Chinese persons.
Glass factories on the Stebenville,
O., district are threatened with a tenn
porary shutdown because of a lack OF
employees, said to be the result of prose-
cutions for violation Of the child Ia
Dor law. A delegation may be sent to
the legislature to urge the passage OF
. lay providing a higher age limit.
The membership of the Internation-
al Typographical union is 1874, in
Guiding the allied crafts. Out of this
total membership, 1926. are At the
present time working but eight hours
4 day.
Over half the flour mills of Mimi
eapolis have shut down, throwing the
employees out of work
Notices have been sent out by the
Amalgamated Assn or Iron steel. & Tin
Workers to all sub-lodges, notifying 6
them that the annual convention will
open at Cincinnati. on May /, and re-
questing them to send resolutions re-
garding any chances in the wage scale
or working rules to the national head
quarters before March 3D. 1t is stated
on good authority that the Association
will demand an increase in wages this
ing rules.
Locomotive engineers on the Grand
Trunk railway are unwilling to accept
an increase Of 4 per cent in their wages
offered by the company in response
to their demand for abolition to the
present sliding scale, and in lieu there
Of a uniform rate Of wages equal to
that of Canadian Pacifics men. Owing
to the disagreement both sides have
consented to settlement by arbitration
All danger of a strike is thus averted.
day .laborers in -Yenez1lla. are paid
from so to 80 cents per day; domestic
servants So to SO per month with
board; cooks IS to $40 per month with
board; farm laborers $40 to $50 per
month with board; hotel walters IS
to $12 per month with board: dry goods
clerks $50 to $50 per month
The Sailors union of the Pacific
celebrated it's twenty-f1rst anniversary
at San Francisco on March s, by a
torchlight parade and literary exercis-
es.
The unemployed in Liverpool, Eng.
are planning to gather a million work
ingmen together to surround the House
of Parliament the opening day OF
the session for the purpose Of de-
manding relief.
An impending strike among book
binders Of Saxony has been postponed
The efforts of the workmen however
to obtain higher wages have not been
entirely without success, an increase
of from 25 to SO cents per week hav-
ing been granted
hn
ers counties of England have granted
the cotton operatives an increase OF
wages amounting to 2h per cent com
mencing May /. The increase will
affect 100000 operatives.
The Atlantic Coast Seamen's union
in it's meeting at headquarters, Boston
Mass, recently adopted resolution urg.
ing the passage by congress of the
Goulden bill Oh. r. 12472), providing
for the better manning of passenger
steamers.
The first quarter Of this year will
see an increase of twenty-five per cen
In the growth of labor unions of thi!
country declares Samuel Gompers,
president of the American Federation
Of Labor.
The miners wages in the soutl
Wales coal fields will remain unchanged
for the next three months
Japanese carpenters earn II cents
DAY, and stone cutters IL cents.
Aongshoremen in Boston, Mass
threaten to strike unless their demand
are conceded by the steamship com.
panies. The Longshoremen demand ar
IN crease of 10 cents an hour to 4(
cents on all bulk cargo, and cent.
an hour for additional overtime. The
Longshorement in Boston number 1000
PRESIDENT F. l.. Robbins, of the Pitts.
burg Coal company has expressed the
opinion that there will be no strike nj
the bituminous miners, and declares
that there will be another conference
before April !, when differences will
be settled
In Germany children under Is wears
or age cannot be employed at anv oc
cupation.
lhe Clgarmakers' union has com
mehded the proposition to turn tn,
strike fund Of the Cigarmakers' unio,
into loan fund for the purpose Of en-.
abllng members of the union IN h,,i,,