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San Francisco, Cal, is to have a build
ing trades temple.
Over one thousand bartenders of New
York City will demand higher wages.
The work of organizing the machinists
Of Cleveland, Ohio, is advancing rapidly.
William Foley of Boston, Mass, is the
new head of the international Steel and
Copper Plate Printers.
Street car men of Chicr-o want q
weekly pay day. an eight-hour day and a
minimum wage of 80 cents an hour.
Tn:onists of Roanoke. Va, have declar-
Cd their local baseball team as unfair
because they use non-union printing.
There is a movement on foot in Pitts
burg, Pa, to organize a new union labor
party. Prominent trades union officials
are the projectors.
Labor unions are being formed in Mex
leo, and when they are conducted along
legitimate lines the government does not
interfere with them.
The structural steel builders of New
York have decided to form a national as
>ociation for the purpose of fighting the
Unions Of steel workers.
I.ctail Clerks international Associa-
ton will begin the payment of sick bene-
fits to members who have been in con-
tinuous good standing on the books for a
period of twelve months or more.
The United Railways and Electric
Company Of Baltimore, Md, has shown
its interest in the welfare of its employees
by fitting up a club room where its army
Of men can find rest and recreation when
off duty.
The first annual convention Of the new
Roilermakers and Iron S~hipbui!ders' In
trrnatlonal Union will be held in Boston,
Mass, next April. The selection was
made on a referendum vote just COM
pleted.
Boston, Mass, musicians local No..
l5., of the American Federation of La
Dor, the same international to which the
big Boston Musicians Protective Union,
no. 9, belongs, was officially organized
last week. 1t is composed exclusively of
colored men.
President Mitchell of the United Mine
Workers has been roundly criticised by
some of the union leaders because he
Gined with a number of bankers and
tinanciers at Columbus. Ohio, on Labor
day, and did not call upon the local Off
GERS Of the organization.
A movement to organize the machinists
Mt the naval gun factory, Washington,
D. c., is meeting with success. The
Trades Unionist, organ Of the Central
Union, is leading the agitation, and, de-
SPITE a strong Parry organization. are
bringing the competent workmen into line
On Sept. 1 a number Of German min
ers, who had been engaged ~ostensibly to
fill new places III the mines at Jumet,
Belgium, but who found that they were
expected to take the place of a number
of striking miners, fatty refused to go tc
work and proposed to prosecute the com,
pany for having misled them.
London (England) printers have OBJ
.ained a decision from the Court of Las
Appeal, which states that picketing is
legal, and that no damages can be col
lected by the employer. The union haC
been sued by a large publishing house
The firm won decisions and awards O
damages in the lower courts.
Chicago iron manufacturers are pre-
dieting the end of the molders' strike as
result of the installation Of a new typ
of molding machine. 1t is said that thi
machine turns out as mech as three skill
ed iron workers. and orders have beer
sent to New York for 500 of the new ma
chimes. New machines have been ordereN
also for the mills in Milwaukee.