The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-03-24
LABOR NOTES FROM
THE FIELD.

| The first official act of the new
Labor party of England has been to
draft an education bill which is to
be put forward on behalf of the
Trade Union Congress. 1t advocates
secular education and the abolition
! of religious tests for teachers. State
aid schools are to be provided every
where by local authority at the I'm
perial cost. Secondary and techni-
cal education also must be furnished
by local authorities where required.
| Public medical examination and
treatment and one free meal a day
are also provisions of the bill.
Street car men of Albany. N Y,
| have received an increase in wages
from 20 cents an hour. to % cents.
A women's union for the protect
ion of the labor unions of men has
been. organized in Jersey City. To
establish a school to instruct women
how and where to spend their money
most benefcially for union labor will
be one of the features of the new
organization.
The revised laws of the Interna-
tional Association of Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers., which be-
came effective January /, provide
that the per capita tax to the inter-
national organization be IS cents a
month, instead of 40 cents per quar-
ter, as formerly.
After long conference the Broth
erhood of Carpenters made an agree
ment with the Master Carpenters in
New York recently affecting $4,000
men, and the wages will be increased
from $3.50 to $3.50 per day, begin
ming July list, 1906.
The Commonwealth Trust and Saw
1ngs bank of Chicago, or the First
Union Labor bank will open its doors
for the transaction of business about
April Is. The capital is $2,000,0O0,
| divided into shares of IS each, par
value, and is to be sold only to trade
unionists, salaried people, farmers,
small dealers and professional peo-
pie.
The C1garmakers' International un-
ION is considering a plan Of loaninG
the surplus funds of the organization
to members on easy terms for the
purpose of building homes or start
ing in business.
The International Union of Flour
and Cereal Mill employees gives a
union button to each member secur.
ing the admission of a new member
or the reinstatement of an old one
The Granite Manufacturers asso
citation. by a majority vote, has de.
ctded to suspend work in the 12C
shops at Quincy, Mass, represented
in the association. The lockout will
directly affect 1900 granite cutters.
A special jurisdiction agreement
has been entered into between thu
garment workers and shirt waist anG
laundry workers. International.
The Master Carpenters association
of Passaic, N. Y, have placed the
scale of wages for journeymen cor
:penters upon an even basis with the
scale in Newark and Paterson. Or
and after May 1 the journeymer
carpenters in Passaic will receive a
cents an hour. The day will be eight
| hours. go
Governor Folk, of Missouri, has
sent out instructions to all the state
mine inspectors of Missouri to en-
force the eight-hour law, which thu
United States Supreme Court recent
ly decided was constitutional.
over 800 new members have re-
Gently been taken into the Walters
union of San Francisco, and abou
100 applications were received.
/ The committee Of five representa-.
the telegraphers and station agent!
of the Southern Railway agreed tt
acceT: the wage scale of that road.
At a regular meeting of the Cen
tral Federated union Of New York 6
committee of five was appointed t.
cooperate with a well-known firm
OF lawyers in drafting labor laws Il
be submitted to the legislature o.
the state.
Thomas I. Kidd, who was secre
tary OF the Amalgamated Woodwork
ers' International union for fourteen
years and an active trade unionis
for % years, has retired from active
service.
BY vote Of 27,367 to 11,76o. the
membership of the United Brother
hood of Carpenters and Joiners ha.
decided upon an increase in per can.
tia tax instead of the troublesome as
sessments which it would have beer
necessary to levy in the event of thu
defeat of the now proposition.
The Patternmakers' League O
North America at it's recent con
vention raised the assessment of it:
members from Is to so cents ne,
week.
1t is not impossible that the In
ternational Slate and Tile Roofers
union will unite with the Amalga
mated Sheet Metal Workers Inter
national Alliance.
! The Painters, Paperhangers an,
Decorators local Of Lewiston, Me-, /
circulating a petition throughou
Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont
asking their general executive t,
place paid organizer in these states
1t was not until 1926 that strike