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strikes. Its methods are based solely on
arbitration.
NJ. d. Rutherford has been reappointed
as State labor commissioner of Ohio. He
is a former president of the Ohio United
Mine Workers.
The managers of the Methodist Book
Concern have announced their concession
of the principle of the eight-hour day for
employees in all departments.
The American Federation of Labor is
attempting to reorganize the motormen,
conductors and other employees of the
street railways of New York City.
The brewery workers recently passed a
resolution cOndemning the employment of
children under IS years old in bottling
works in st. Louis and Milwaukee.
In 1886 carpenters in New York City
made $3.50 a day and worked fifty-three
hours a week. They now receive $3.50 q
day and work but forty-four hours
week.
1t begins to look as if the farmers, at
least those in the South, were going to
join hands with the other workingmen in
the effort to improve conditions for the
producers.
Steps are being taken in Chicago for
the formation of an arbitration board of
transfers and team owners, which will
adjust all differences which may arise in
the future.
Columbia Lodge of Machinists of Wash
ingtor, ID. c., expects to have the entire
force of 1900 machinists employed at the
Washington navy yard enrolled as men,
bers within a short time.
The Standard Oil Company has rein
stated the officers Of the National Broth
erhood of Stationary Firemen and has
agreed to take up the question of increase
In wages as soon as possible
A proposition that all laboring people
be entitled to State aid or pensions, I'M
der certain conditions as to age and
health, will be presented to King Oscar
of Sweden in the near future.
The annual convention of the Carriage
and Wagon Workers International Union
will be held in Buffalo, n. Y, October
10. The special object of the convention
is the framing of a new constitution.
An international exposition portraying
the life of the laborer for the last 1000
years, showing conditions surrounding
him from the time of feudal slavery to
the present time, is contemplated by the
French parliament.
The International Building Trades
Council has placed itself on record as
favoring arbitration as better method of
adjusting differences between employees
and employers than the usual plan of
strikes and lockouts.
Theatrical employees of Chicago, as we'll
as many of those in the other large cities
of the East, are formulating plans to OPP
pose the transportation of foreign skilled
and unskilled labor for American theaters
and will ask all theatrical organizations
to oppose the importation of foreign
chorus girls by sympathetic strikes.
In Chicago the weekly half-holiday fight
started by the Shoe Workers District
Council has attracted attention. There
are 5000 shoe workers in the Chicago fac
tories, of whom nearly two-thirds are
girls. They hope to make the Saturday
half-holiday a benefit secured by agree
ments with the employers after Feb. 1.
To enforce their demands of 81 per
day and the Saturday half-holiday, 800
members of the New York and New Jer-
sey branch of the New York Metal Trades
Association went on strike, and the en-
ployers promptly decided they would en-
ploy ship carpenters on the open-shop
basis. Steps were taken to employ strike
breakers.
A number of Pennsylvania cigar manu-
facturers were arrested last month at the
instance of the officers of the Cigarmak-
ers' International Union, charged with
issuing and using bogus labels. AS these
labels are we'll protected by law, the
union will have no difficulty in obtaining
conviction in case the guilt of the persons
is established.
The Columbia Typographical Union of
Washington, d. c., has voted to expel
seventy members who refused to pay long
err the assessment levied for the strike
benefit on account of the strike of the job
printers in the District of Columbia
which has been on since last January. The
dismissed members are all employed in
the government printing Office, but Public
Printer Stillngs made it known that no
man should be molested because he did
not belong to the union. The unions ac-
ton makes the government printing office
an open shop in fact as well as in name.
In the Southern States there are six
teen carpenters unions of colored men.
The brotherhood claims jurisdiction over
jourueymen carpenters or joiners, stair
builders, ship joiners, millwrights, planning
mill bench hands, cabinetmakers or men
running woodworking machinery. But their
claims to this extensive jurisdiction has
not been undisputed. The Amalgamated
Society of Carpenters, an English organi-
zation, and the Amalgamated Woodwork.
ers have both contested it before conren-
tions of the American Federation of La
Dor. The enmity of the Brotherhood and