The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-04-14

pentine fields. They are to receive so
cents day. while the strikers asked
$3.50 and 50.
Orders were issued from the office
OF the superintendent of motive power
recently at Altoona, Penn, reducing
the hours Of work for men employed
| in the shops on the Pennsylvania Div
ision of the Pennsylvania Railroad
from f1fty-f1ve to twenty-five hours
week. About 5000 are affected.
The Colonial Legislature Of St.
Johns, N. F., on March %, unanimous
~ adopted a resolution favoring old
age pensions. Premier Bond declared
1t to be his belief that the adoption Of
the policy would not unduly strain
the colony's finances. Various speak
ers on the project estimated the cost
OF the pensions at $15O, 900 or $500, 900
a year.
An agreement has been reached by
the master builders and the brick lay
ers at Easton, Pa, that the latter are
to work but eight hours a day after
May l, and are to receive 40 cents
an hour.
The Executive Council Of the Amer
lean Federation Of Labor recently in
terv1eWed President Roosevelt, Sen
ator Frye, president pro tempro of the
senate, and Speaker Cannon, setting
forth the views of organized Labor on
several important legislative matters
such as the Anti-Injunction bill. Ma
tlonal E1ght-Hour Law, Chinese Ex-
clusion and the Immigration Laws.
The Hawaii Shinpo, a Japanese pa
per published at Honolulu, T. H., re-
ports that many Japanese have recent
~ LETT the Islands, presumably for the
mainland Of the United States.
Fourteen out of seventeen shingle
mills of Ballard, Wash. the the great
| est single manufacturing city in the
world are now idle.
japanese carpenters receive only "a
cents day.
| 10 encourage working people to es-
tabl1sh homes Of their own, Norway has
founded a bank for workingmen. II
lends money at 51s and per cent, and
gives the borrower forty-two years ir
which to pay the loan.
BY a majority decision the New
Zealand Arbitration Court has refused
the Seamen's union claims for an in.
crease in wages, also preference t.
| unionists.
It Is expected that Eastern Massa<
chusetts will be the scene Of bis
street car mems strike next month.
An alarming situation has developed
IN Lancashire as the result of the de-
cls1on reached by the 100000 worker,
in the cotton mills to demand a. flv,
per cent increase in wages with tn,
threat that unless it is granted the,
will strike at the end Of this month.
Union blacksmiths Of st. Paul eacl
contributed half days pay to tn,
striking printers Of that city.
Botlernnal1ers and helpers in the M
K. & T. shops lost their strike.
Structural Building Trades Alliance
OF Norfolk, V. A., have established
free employment bureau.
Detroit carpenters have adopted {
new scale Of 371k cents an hour.
A movement has been started in Ia
Dor circles to purchase a burial Mo
and erect a monument to the memor,
of John Swinton. who died severa
years ago, after a. life spent in tn,
work OF the labor movement.
There are 500 members Of the Retail
Dry Goods Clerks union Of New Yorl
City who work from 1880 a. m. to 1:
p. m. seven days week. They de.
mand day off each week, and will
get it or strike.
chicago Plasterers are contemplatins
sending the employers request FOL
| $3.50 a day, raise Of 81 a. day.