The commonwealth., 1906-07-13


Is tied up by an injunction.
The Journeymen Tailors' union
ABOUT to take a national referenduI
vote to elect minor officers.
Walter S. Weeks. of New York
the new head of the Brotherhood {
Boiiermakers and Iron shipbuilders
The Bricklayers' and Stonemasoul
union will continue as one organiza
ton A recent election decided tn
point.
Ihe railway companies of Englan
and Wales employ $4,000 men. Th
Scottish and Irish companies emplo
10000.
The Bookbinders' Internationa
union has ordered a referendum vot
on whether the employers shall b,
asked for an eight-hour day.
Platelayers are more liable to acci
dent than any other railway work
men. On an average one gets hur
every 35 hours in the United King
dom.
The San Francisco Building Trades
Council is vigorously fighting a
proposition to bring in 1000 japanese
laDorers to work on the ruins as brick
cleaners
The Boilermakers and Ship Build
ers (England) increased their mem
bershlp by 377 during the month of
April This union expended more
than $4,000 for benefits during the
same month.
The great strike of the freight
handlers, involving 5000 men, which
has threatened Chicago for month.
Is aVerted. The terms offered by the
railways are succinctly an advance of
a cent an hour for all hour men and
an increase of $3.50 a month to all
monthly men.
According to P. H, Mccarthy, presi-
dent Of the Building Trades Council
there is no dearth of mechanics in the
city of San Francisco. Between 20 900
and 2l,O00 members of unions afiliat-
ed with the council are registered and
this number, he says, will be more
than enough to handle current opera
tions.
The Granite Cutters International
association is voting on a location for
headquarters for the next FIVE wears
There was no election in the vote |
taken last month, and the two highest
cities on the list, New York and
quincy, Mass, are again placed before
the members. The present headuuar.
ters are in Quincy.
The executive council of the Amor
lean Federation of Labor apDointed a
committee to draft statement TO or.
8anlzed labor and its friends of the
country relative to the political cam
palgn Tor the defeat of labor's oppo-
hehtS, the election Of friends and par
tlcuLarly the election of representative
"orkmen to congress.
Inc New York Central. Ee.se.,....,
gor aoinn in+o noIttia, r,,ttat ,''T, T.o5
70 +bo nraoni,a+ion of W. 'n insancr5out Ln so~t
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no wage scale lor A9V9 mas Deen re-
wv ou anu '1,e "iiol lnl'ia'loh lee r.
ain - ~ t az ,ne OesAn
nna1otonu So,iannI s,s a,n tno .
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Mill now o,11 fon 90 ou, - a
m in;nina +ha rniop Wv a. Sa'h h.l~ pa' nn'n' M =
ho ,ota q, -. aI "
nants 'N'
STRIKING r,;rors ~ tho rrr,.o. s.. q
~oa1 counorv a. sn,itbeo,a ~ t,,~os 4
, trick m their emnlovorc whioh ia a
,ricue IN tho bie+orv of 1ohnr nou. q
.ha Tn+ernationa1 T,ahor Now prroan n
Having bean given iudomor+ IN s,,its n
FOR money dino tham thov attoohod n
tha Catlinq q,,n tha coal comronv hod n
at plum Run rnine IN sboot a
them down and also levied on the 5
ammunition the comnarv had storad C
about the mine. There were other t
things attached under the evecu+ions f
but the miners were particular to in. o