The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-06-30

that carries with It: the 'open" shop
The Home Factory and Industrial
begun an. active campaign to enlarge
Its membership to 1000; and J. O.
Wright is chairman of the Member
ship committee. II ..
About the most disgusting thing. a
union man runs into these days is
columns of. radical ranting on the or
ganized movement in labor CD pa
per followed by page ad from a scab
labor corporation.
Tho Craig Sh1pbuilding company,
which sold its shipyard in Toledo. O.,
Will establish an extensive nlan- on
tho cast side Of San Pedro bay near
Long Beach. Gal II the ccmpau:- can
secure the necessary land.
The so-called Industrial Workers Of
the World are exacuating Youngstown,
O., the skaters and" timers returning
to the Sheet Metal Workers Associa-
ton, from which body they seeded
because Of some facied grievances.
Harvest hands are now wanted in
Kansas. The distributing points are
Topeka and Kansas City. Twenty-one
thousand hands will be required to put
up the crops this year The railroads
are allowing one cent a mile rate.
In Columbus. Ind. telephone Office,
the chief operator resigned and the
company placed an outsider in the
position. The girls are now on strike
insisting that the position be filled by
the next girl in line for promotion.
An all-around incr use OF 50 cents
| a day has been secured by the Wood
Carvers' Union in New York and is to
remain In force until the middle Of
1908. The members work eight hours
a day and half day on Saturday.
| The employees of the Michigan Trac-
ton company, headquarters at Kala-
mazoo, will hereafter receive 81 cents
per hour for the first six months and
| % cents thereafter. A compromise
was made Oh nine hours for a day's
| work.
Minneapolis city council has fixed
the wages of laborers at 81 day of
eight hours. The motion passed un-
animously requesting the city engi-
neer, In making his estimates for 1907
to figure on 81 day for men and
$3.50 for teams.
The Farmers Land and Loan Co.,
has opened for business at Durant, I.
T. The company is capitalized at
$1,00C,O00 and their purpose r. to buy
| land only for the actual settler and by
that means keep it out of the hands
of the SPECTATOR.
Assistant ticket agents along the
line of the Erie railroad are very much
worried as to how much longer they
are to Acld their places, as it is stated
that the road contemplates installing
women in all vacancies occurring
| among assistants.
]. J. Hill is pushing his trans CONT
mental railway through the Canadian
Northwest. At the present time he
has over. 2,0C0 teams at work in Mani
toba and nearly 10000 men. and DUR
Ing the. next few 'weeks these num-
bers~ will be greatly increased 'A> r
With all the attempts of the labor
crushers to blot out organized. labor,
it seems to break out anew daily.
The sensible employer now sees it
don't pay to quarrel with organized la
Dor who fight with the same ammu-
milton as they do.
| A general strike of rockmen and
] excavators in New York, which would
have affected building operations SER
iously, besides throwing about 10000
men out of work, has been averted
by the acceptance of a compromise
agreement, which goes into effect July
1.
The union iron moulders of the
country have for the past. month been
paying a ten cent week assessment
! In addition to their regular 25 cents
a week dues for the purpose Of pro-
| viding defense fund to combat the
| attempt Of the National Founders AS
ISOLATION to introduce the open shop.
BY an unantmo,ls opinion, the Col
| orado Supreme Court upholds the con-
stitutionality Of the employers liabil-
ity act passed by the legislature in
1901. Under this act an employer is
responsible for the death of an en-
ploye by accident, even If it be causql
by the negligence of. a co-employe.
Do the men who are taking the plac-
| es OF the union printers in the struck
| shops realize the fact that the nine-
hour day was the direct result Of the
united work and efforts of the men,
bers of the International Topographic
caJ union? If they d. and will stop
realize that for the non -union!st the
ten-hour day is not far away.
A bill providing for an eight-hour