The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1906-11-16

You rob Of health and deprive Of hope
Children that only in years are young,
You never have stabbed with a cleaning
blade
And you think that your hands are free
from stains,
But If God keeps watch, are you not
afraid
He viii mark your brow as he branded
Gains?
Do you never dream in the lonely night
OF the souls you have killed in your lust
of gains,
or the pitiful children, pale and slight,
For whom, deprived of their chitdhood's
right,
A joyless existence alone remains?
Is. Il ,kiser, in Chicago Record Herald.
The recent strike of Southern rail.
way machinistJ lasted three days.
Only S3 and is children are
included in Arizona's 1913 wage earn.
ers,
Conductors and Motermen's union
gained 1000 members the last twelve
months,
According TO statistics there are
629,l73 men and boys employed in
coal mines in this country.
The T~elegraphers' National union
will ask locals to accumulate a de.
Tense fund Of $40 per capita,
An effort is being made TO thorough
1y npuupiyn tbn untrb puca pnpfn yprq
in the United States and Canada.
Boston roofers will soon make u de.
mand for an Increase in wages, claim.
ing that the cost of living warrants
the raise.
One Of the early records In the
United States Of q protest against con
convention held in Utica, N. Y, in
1884.
No less than 1876 artisans ana
laborers were employed on Govern
ment cooperative works (roads and
railways in New Zealand during
May.
In prescribing the conditions Of en-
ployment on public work, one or two
States so far have required printing
contractors to use the union label on
public printing,
A report from Lyons, France, says
that II prominent members of the
French parliament have Joined in In
PRODUCING a bill to provide for work
ingmen's cooperative industrial com
panies,
Cigarmakers throughout the whole
country are jubllant over the raise in
wages which has been given them by
the American Cigar company. This
raise, which varies from five per cent.
to rs per cent, according to location,
took place October "a. 1t was entire
ly unsolicited on the part Of the en-
ployes, and on this account was de
more unexpected.
A gigantic labor lobby Of trade
"unionists to attend the next session
Of congress has been urged by the
Central Labor Union Of Washington,
d! G, II Is proposed that every cen.
trail labor body In the country, some
$50 in number, shall send at least
one member to watch the senators ard
| representatives, International unions
are also requested to do the same. This
lobby will present bills. petitions. etc,
and take an interest in defeating bad
bills and passing good.
The first test OF the federal eight
hour day law ended in a victory for
the government at Cincinnati. After
being out only Is minutes the jury in
the United States court found the
Sheridan-Kirk Contracting company
guilty of violating the law In the con
truction of the big Ohio river dam
at Fairbank, nine miles below this
city. The law provides for a fine not
exceeding 81 1000. Before the govern.
ment decided to make a test case
workmen on the dam and locks were
permitted to work as many hours as
they pleased. The majority worked
from 10 to 70 hours per day. No
sooner had the hours been cut than
the laborers began to leave.
State Commissioner of Labor Sher.
man Of New York reports that condi.
lions Of employment during the first
half of 1906 were an improvement
over that of 1905.
The ultimatum of the railroad man.
ayers, refusing the demand Of switch.
men for an eight-hour day, has been
issued. II IL a sweeping refusal to
all men whose unions are seeking to
lessen the hours Of labor and increase
wages. II was addressed to the Broth.
erhood Of Railway Trainmen, whose
demand upon the railroad managers re-
CURED an answer by November /, as
well as to the Switchmen's union.
The most successful unions have
high dues. The Amalgamated Asso-
citation of Elastic Goring Weavers
charges two dollars per month.
The total number OF labor disputes
recorded In the united kingdom In
1905 wal 1858. The number of work
people affected was 93,5o3. The
amount Of working time lost was near.
ly $780, 900 working days. The time
lost appears large. but in proportion
to the whole industrial population 1t
Is small, As It only amounts to about
onc-quarter Of a day per head per an
mum when spread " the Industrial
population Of the country.