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is expected to spur the fair sex to &C

ton.
Unions affiliated with the United
Association of Plumbers, Gas Filters,
ers are considering the advisability of
establishing a home for old and inca
FACILITATED pipe workers.
The executive board of the japanese
recent meeting San Francisco, de-
cided to request Congressman Hayes
Of California to present the Japanese
exclusion bill to congress, and to con-
fide it to his special care in the house
of representatives.
A movement to replace women
stenographers ut the city hall of st.
Louis, Mo-, with men who have fami-
lies to support and who can do the
work just as we'll as the women, was
inaugurated at the meeting of the
house of delegates.
The Japanese have gained absolute
control of the beet-growing, fruit
picking, hop-picking and orchard work
in general throughout the state of Cali
fornia and in some districts by rent
and lease have acquired possession Of
the lands for themselves.
After a conference lasting over two
months, the Brotherhood of Carpen-
tiers made an agreement with the Mas
ter Carpenters association in New
York recently affecting $4,000 men, by
which wages will be increased from
$3.50 to $3.50 a day on July 1.
There are at present over TOO, 600 men
unemployed in Japan owing to the re-
turn of the troops from Manchuria.
This is causing uneasiness in view of
the industrial depression now prevail
ing, and the unlikelihood of a revival
in business in the near future.
The labor press gives constant evil
dence of it's improving service to the
cause of labor's interests, and a clear
er perception of the attitude and posi-
ton it occupies in the trade union
, movement There is perceptible inn
provement and efficiency as times goes
en-, says Samuel Gompers.
Resolutions were adopted at a meet
ing of the Central Textile Union, Phila-
delphia urging Governor Pennypacker
to issue supplemental call for an
extra session of the legislature, and to
for the protection of women and chill
dren employed in mills and factories.
The Bureau of Statistics of Labor
for New York state for 1905 reports
that one7half the unions have been in
jrred by immigrant competition. OF
266 unions, 120, with 34,307 members,
suffered reduction of wages; 81 unions,
with a membership of % 1913, had fewer
working days in the year.
The Carpenters Council of Boston
has received a letter from the secre-
tary of the navy in reply to protest
made regarding a wharf contractor
working his men nine hears day at
the Charleston Navy Yard, in which
the secretary said that the navy de-
partment could not coplpel contrac-
tor to work his men only eight hours.
The Presbyterian Ministers League
OF Kansas City, Mo, recently made
overtures to the Industrial Council of
that city with view to securing fra
ternal Affiliations between the two Or
CARNATIONS, the object being to bring
about closer rels tionship between the
church and the workmen of Kansas
City. The proposal was unanimously
adopted by the Industrial Council.
Wrappers and warp dressers in TWEEN
ty-eight cloth mills in Philadelphia
struck recently because the manufac-
turers declined to advance their week
ly wages from $500 to $1,000. AL
though but $50 men are at present in
volved, their work is of such char
acter that if the manufacturers are
unable to fill their places $4,000 EN-
ployes will be rendered idle.
The United Mine Workers at Shamo-
convention adopted unanimously the
report of the wage scale committee
calling for conference with the OPP
eratives looking to an agreement re-
garding wages, hours of labor and
other conditions of employment after
April 1 next. The principal demands
Incorporated in the report are an eight
hour day and recognition of the union.
1t is reported that radical changes
in the immigration laws will follow if
the suggestions of Commissioner Gen
eral of immigration Sargent are put
into effect. The report of the COM
missioner general is now nearly COM
pleted. 1t can be said on good author
ity that Sargent is anxious to have the
ports of the United States closed to
certain classes of foreigners who are
allowed to land under the present
laws.
The long standing dispute between
seamen and longshoremen has at last
been definitely acted upon by the
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