The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-01-06

penters from Withdrawing from its
organization by threatening a line OF:
500. +. : ~..< :. :
Twenty-Five hundred rworkingmen
of Hartford, Conn, have contributed
$4,000 toward a fund. Tor prevent
ing the spread of tuberculosis IN that
city.
The failure of the convention OF
the American Federation OF, LABOR TO
grant charter ito the Stonemasons'
union was due to the fact THAT when
ever the stonemasons' and the brick
LAYERS organization come in contact
there is continual turmoil.
An advance in the wages OF the
ironworkers of the Amalgamated as
ISOLATION is assured for the bimonth-
" settlement in January The enect
will not be felt on the wages OF the
men until the settlement OF wages
made in March. =
Leather workers are on strike at
Southampton, R. l.
A union of bartenders has, been
formed at Irwin. Pa.
Nashville (Tenn.) Typographical
union celebrated it's fiftieth ann1ver-
sary.
Cloth hat and cap makers Of Bos-
ton have entered on an organizing
campaign. -.
Cincinnati boxmakers have asked
for a 10 per cent increase in a Slid
ing piecework scale.
The international convention or
the roofers' union has been called
for Jan. s, at washington.
The Transfers union of Indian
apolts has gathered in nearly half
hundred new members.
Allentown, Pa, flint bottle works,
burned in July, have been rebuff 1t and
work has resumed this week.
Decatur painters have adopted a
sick benefit of IS a week. 1t costs
the members twenty-five cents a
month.
Eighty miners employed at Tellu-
ride, COL, were ordered to join the
Mine Owners Association or quit.
They quit.
A vagrant arrested in Kankakee
for carrying concealed weapons
pleaded as an excuse that he had
lately been strike-breaker. He
was fined.
The National Brotherhood of
Painters, Decorators and Paperhang-
ers elected J. c. Balhorn OF Detroit:
president, and J. S. Skemp secretary
treasurer.
Leather workers have a labor bu-
reau composed Of members in various
parts of the United States and Can
ada, who look after the out-of-work
members. : g.ls..
Glass workers international union
has obtained recognition of the flat
wage scale in a little over half of the
factories represented in the Manufac-
turers' association. :. =, ~"
There are nine local divisions of
the Amalgamated Association of
Street Railway Employees 1.-THE, Chi
cago district with membership of
approximately 5000.
A state convention of machinists'
lodges, which met at Boston, voted
$500 to continue the organizing cam
paign in Massachusetts, Rhode Island
and New Hampshire.
International photo-engravers' un-
ion announce that national arbitra-
ton agreement has been entered into
with the national publishers assocla-
ton. 1t will run for five years.
The national union of the bakers
is now without a head, the delegates
to the convention in New York hav-
ing voted to do away with the presi
dent and vice president.
One hundred and twenty-five
molders are on strike at Muskegon,
Mich, for raise from 271 to 80
cents an hour. Two shops, employing
twenty men, granted the increase.
Glass Blowers union and the glass
bottle manufacturers have come to
an agreement, whereby the scale of
last year will be in effect this year
and no effort will be made to make a
new scale.
The board Of directors of the Ma
t1onal Association of Manufacturers
has adopted resolutions calling upon
the members to aid employing print
ers to fight the demand for an eight
hour day.
Union cigarmakers affiliated with
the American Federation of Labor
are to make a bitter fight against
the Introduction of the red label of
the Industrial Workers of the World
in Milwaukee.
Unions affiliated with the United
Association of Plumbers, Gasftters,
Steamfitters and Steamfitters' Help
ers are considering the ACCESSIBILITY
of establishing a home for old and
incapacitated pipeworkers.
Emmett Flood, general organizer
for the International Brotherhood of
Transfers, is in Kentucky. He has
been delegated by President Shea to
organize the teamsters of that state
and will begin in Louisville.
The inmates Of the New jersey
state prison have stopped making
mail bags because of the law prohib-
iting. the use of convict labor on gov
eminent contracts. A Trenton fac
tory employing 100 persons has taken
up the work.
During October the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor issued nineteen
charters, divided as follows: Central
bodies, Z; stat0branches, 2; federal
labor unions, g.; local trade unions,
4. At the present time II has 112