The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-04-28
LABOR NOTES FROM THE FIELD.

| Friendly relations which have ex'
| listed between the Chicago Building
contractors and the Building Trades
| unions since the close Of the lockout
of 1900. have been seriously straignec
through the recurrence OF sympathetic
strikes.
The coal miners suspension, 1t II
thought, will soon be amicably ADJUST
ed.
Labor troubles in Havana continue
to increase.
The House OF Representatives re-
Gently passed the Personal Liability
bill. The bill makes both parties re-
sponisble for their own negligence
It also renders void any contract In
tended to restrict the liabilities of the
employer for the negligence Of en-
ployes.
Paris, France, postal workers are
still striking.
"Picketing" founded by larger unions
for half a century has been abandoned
by the Associated Building Trades,
composed Of the Oldest labor organiza-
tons in Chicago. This body has de-
cided that In the future it will allow
non-union worknen to take the places
of strikes to go to and from their work
without interference.
E. r. Stackable. collector Of GUS
toms at Honolulu, T. H., will go to
the Azores as the agent of the tor
ritorial board of immigration to Sc
cure lab0rers for Hawaii.
The report on trade unions in Eng
land in 10000, which has just been
that during the years under review
there was a slight decline in the total
membership, accompanied by consid-
cradle increase In trade-union expen-
diture On unemployed benefit.
The House Committee on Labor re-
Gently considered the Kahn bill pro-
hibiting the sale Of convict-made goods
outside Of the state Of manufacture.
Representative Kahn says the ma
jority Of the committee thinks his bill
the best of several before it to deal
with the question of the competition
Of prison made goods with outside
manufa cturers.
The threatened strike of street car
men in Oakland. CAL, has been averted
by an agreement under which the
company comedies numerous improve
ments in conditions, while the men
agree to continue the present wage
scale until January /, 1907.
The French iners' delegates at Lens
have decided to reject the compally's
offers, and will continue the strike.
The salvage work following the re-
cent explosion continues without re-
suit.
The bureau Of labor at Washington
has begun an investigation of the bene-
fetal feature of the labor unions, and
is now gathering statistics on sick
and death benefits paid and the old
age pension system which some Of
the unions have adopted.
A new way Of settling industrial diff
fculties is being tried at Cambria,
Wyo.; wher coal miners and operat-
crs disagreed over hours of work. The
operators wanter the men to work
nine hours, while the miners insisted
on eight. Instead Of striking the min
ers employed lawyers. who discovered
an old state law which makes eight
hours the legal workday for miners.
There are more children under fif-
teen working in the mills in free Am
erica than in Germany and England
and Italy put together" said A. J. Nc
Kelway, Of the National Child Labor
committee, in an address in Philadel-
phia recently. There are more child
rem under sixteen in Pennsylvania
working In the mills than there are in
all the southern states put together.
The railway conductors who some
months ago met in Chicago, pronounced
against government rate-making.
BY admitting 5000 members Of the
Bricklayers and Stonemasons' unions
to aff1liation, the Associated Building
Trades of Chicago and Cook county
has increased it's membership to nearly
100000 members.
The annual Saturday half holiday
and general wage and working agree
ment was signed by the Boston Plas-
terers' union and the employing plas-
terers.
All the metal working establishments
of Dresden, Germany, have agreed to
a lockout Of employees belonging to
unions, owing to the alleged frequency
Of strikers. There are $4,000 workers
affected.
Encourage by the signal success Of
the Building Trades Council of San
Francisco in electing the whole labor
ticket and having now complete con-
troll of the city government, steps have
been taken at recent state convention
of California Building Trades Council
to organize a State Labor Party and
capture the state government.
Twelve years ago one hundred and
three German cities each boosted of
Central Labor Council. In February
Of this year there were in existence
five hundred and six Central Labor
Councils in as many cities in the Ger
man Empire.
The Russian workmen are planning
a conference of delegates to meet this
month and decide on either calling a
general strike or establishing provis-
ional government.
The Trade Union Bank of Chi
cago, where GIL unions and their men,
bers will be asked to deposit their
funds, was opened May 18th with a
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