The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-04-14
LABOR NOTES FROM THE FIELD.

The Japanese and Korean Exclusion
pleted the publication Of two pamphlets
| on the subject of Asiatic immigration.
The strike is being renewed through
| out the mining regions in France.
Mayor Dunno OF Chicago has thrown
down the bars which have prevented
organization of policemen into what
amounts to a. labor union. He de-
clares he has no objection to the or
ganizauon of any wage earners. He
said in effect he would not oppose
affliation Of the policemen with other
organEzations.
Conditions Of labor in Italy are get
ting more difficult, with scarcity of
workmen, especially in the textile in
dustry. Wages have reached a very
high point, probably in some parts not
much less than In the United States,
| making the labor question about the
most difficult one for the manufac-
turer. There are many Italians en-
ployed in South Germany, probably
5000 altogether.
Trenton, N. J., bod carriers have
struck.
Atlanta, Ca, painters and paper
hangers are on strike.
The Seamens Church Institute has
purchased at a cost Of 100000, a plot
Of land at the northeast corner Of
Coenties Slip and South street, New
York. On this plot the Institute will
erect, at an estimated cost of $350,000,
| a Sailors Home" modelled after the
Seamen's Palace in London.
Orders were issued recently suspend
| Ing locomotive repair work at all shops
| on the Erie Railroad system. Five
thousand men are laid off. The action
| Is said to be due to the threatened
coal strike.
| The New Jersey House Of Assembly
has recently passed a bill providing
a penalty for employers of children
under ID years of age.
| About 400 union painters and paper
Hangers Of Denver, comprising all the
members of that branch Of organized
labor, struck recently for an advance
| In wages of Is cents per day.
All unions in the Building Trades Of
Philadelphia, Pa, have combined with
the object Of starting a general cam.
padgn for obtaining "ClosedJ Shop
agreements.
President Roosevelt recently ad.
dressed Secretary Morrison of the Am.
er1can Federation of Labor, requesting
information Of violations Of the Ma.
tional eight hour law, which he prom.
ised to rectify.
The miners Of brown coal Throughout
the middle Of Germany, from which
briQuets are made, are agitating fol
higher wages.
Seeking to prevent the use of tn.
union label at the Municipal Printins
Plant, In Boston, Mass, several en-
ploying printers Of that city have filet
In the State Supreme Court a petitio,
for the writ Of mandamus to compe
discontinuance Of the label.
Owing to the promotion of locomo
tive hremen to engineers, and the re-
tanning of their membership in tn,
Brotherhood Of Firemen, many serious
disputes have arisen and on severa
roads these have nearly led to strikes
One hundred and fifty Thousand
Lancashire weavers and winders, ant
operatives in kindred trades, have OBJ
tanned an advance in wages. They ar,
now receiving the full standard wae,
for the first time since 1873
The New South Wales Boot Trade
union has decided to thoroughly or.
ganfze the county centers.
One hundred Chinese recently ar.
rived at Gainesboro. Fla, to take the
place of the striking men in the tur.