The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-05-12
LABOR NOTES FROM THE FIELD.

their families were in dire. distress:
A fine of IS will be levied on any
member of tho Worcester, (Mass.)
Cigarmakers who ara: cought smoking
cigarettes. 70.
Piano and Organ Workers paid in
benefits during 1905 SSb,2S2.se.
England. 81 has q labor representation
of SO in the House of Commons.
There ar $50 Window Washers in
New York City. One hundred and six
ty-five were killed last year by falling
from high windows while at work.
There were 119 strikes in Missouri in
1905.
Chicago is to have trades union
cemetery that will hold 5000 graves.
Brockton, (Mass.) Central Labor I'm
at which all labels in use were on dis
play.
The Boot and Shoe Workers Con-
vention will be held at Milwaukee, Wis.
Sessions to begin Monday, June IS.
The convention Of the Amalgamated
Association of Iron, Steel and Tinplate
Workers convened at Cincinnati, Ohio,
Tuesday. 1t is thought that the body
will be in session three weeks.
Carriage and Wagon Workers at
Memphis, Tenn, and Toronto, Can,
day.
Elastic Goring Weavers are on strike
for a union shop in Chelsea, Mass.
Wood. wire and metal fathers re-
port II new unions recently organized,
Carpenters of Homestead, Pa. Ask
for an advance Of SO cents day be-
ginning May /.
The A. F. of L. has 1,175 commits
stoned organizers.
Hamilton, ont, is to put union
man UP for representative.
1t is estimated that there are 500, 900
children under / 4years Of age work
ing in American F actories.
The Bureau Of Labor at Washington,
has begun an Investigation Of the bene-
fetal feature of labor unions and is
now gathering satisfies on sick and
death benefits paid and the old age
pension system which some of the
unions has adopted. Gustavus A. Web
Der, a statistical expert connected with
the department is in charge of the
work and is visiting the principal cities
Of the country collecting data.
M. Aud has been elected president
of the newly organized District Farm
ers' Union at Mexia, Tex.
A Manufacturers Builders and EN-
ployers association has been organized
in Nashville, Tenn.
J. p Davies, general organizer of the
American Federation of Labor, or
ganized a machinists' association i; in
Beaumont, Texas.
About 800 farmers met at Hayes,
Mont, and organized a Farmers union,
after listening to addresses on agricul-
ture and stock raising.
The seventeenth annual convention
of the Master Plumbers association
met at Des Moines, Iowa..
BY having all the work done by
contract, Commissioner Of Patents AL
len expects to save. TIE government
on the publication of the Official Ga
zette 100000, hence. some two hund-
red or three hundred printers employed
by Uncle Sam will be out of a Job.
A tract of $4,000 acres on coal land
In Monroe county, o., extending ten
miles back, optioned by Wheeling, W.
", parties has been sold to Pittsburg
and Uniontown capitalists, the pur-
chase price being very close to half
a million dollars. The sale means the
opening of big mines along the river
front, the object being to compete with
the Pittsburg Coal Combine FOR the
river trade.
A London special says: A record in
the collection Of taxes is claimed by
Rhymney, Glamorganshire, coal mining
district, with population of about
5000. For the SOD half year in suc-
cession the whole of the levy has been
collected, there being neither outstapd-
ing debts nor allowances made
One Of the longest drawn-out labor
controversies and strikes in the indus
trial history of the city was settled,
says the Cincinnati Enquirer, when the
Harm ess Makers union compromised its
differences with the Manufacturers as
ISOLATION and abandoned the strike,
which was inaugurated last November.
No question of hours or wages was
originally involved, the strike being
against an alleged incompetent fore
man at the factory of the Perkins,
Campbell company and later extending
to other association shops. Under the
agreement reached and ratified by the
union the mon will be reinstated in
the old positions as rapidly as vanc can
cies occur or agreements with the pres
ent force of non-union men expire in
the various shops. The strike. was
abandoned by the local men because
a large force of. .non-union leather
workers is expected here from San
Francisco.
Let the inspiring watchword go
forth that---We will stand / by our
friends and administer a singing re-
buke to men or parties who are either
Indifferent, negligent or hostile, and
wherever opportunity affords to Sc
cure the election of Intelligent, honest.
earnest trade unionists, with clear, in
blemished, paid-up union cards In their
ossession."-Pohtical platform, A. F..