The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-01-20


made oyertures Is tie Industrial
Council OF that city with i view to
securing frafernal q affiilat lions BE-.
tween the two organizations, the OBJ
1ject being to bring about q closer
the workmen OF Kansas City. The
proposal was unanimously adopted
by the Industrial Council. s:.sF
: The New Zealand government has
just purchased eleven acres Of land.
costing $4,000. near Dunedin, for
workmens homes: .~~.. ~ :. .,
t., The average life of a stone mason
is SO years. ,%1:E
The Wellington IN. ~ city coun-
Gil has decided to enter into an in
dustrial agreement with the en-
ployes on the municipal tramways
concerning wages and hours Of labor.
The agreement provides that all en-
ployes shall join the Tramway Un-
ion within one month of Joining the
service, and that disputes, shall be
decided by the appeal board.
Commissioner Warner recently at
Chicago made recommendations to
Secretary Hitchcock for the promo
ton OF about 100 clerks In the Pen
sion Bureau and the reduction in
salary of about twenty-five Others.
The employees who are to be reduced
are generally old persons who are
claimed to be not so efficient as for
merly and yet who have rendered
such faithful service that It is not
considered just to separate them from
the service. Several such persons
have been receiving comparatively
high salaries. Many OF them will
be placed on the 5000 roll.
After eight weeks and the examin-
alton of nearly 4,800 veniremen, q
jury was secured at Chicago, to try
Charles Gilhooley, who is charged
with causing the death Aof non-un-
ion workman during a strike.
A movement to replace women
stenographers at the City Hall of St.
Louis, Mo-, with men who have fam
lilies 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.
1t is estimated that 10000 work.
ers, with their wives and children,
are in starving condition In the
Baku district, Russia, as result Of
the Tartar rising and depredations:
The journeymen carpenters OF
Southern Massachusetts will, early
| in the spring, make demand Tor a
| wage of SO a day and the union shop
J. L. Sullivan, general secretary
treasurer Of the Bartenders has been
| elected international auditor.
| A federal conference Of tobacco
| workers, held recently in Sydney
IN. S. w. decided to form an
| Australian Tobacco Workers Union.
The Japanese have gained absolute
control of the beet-growers, fruit
picking, hop-picking and orchard
work in general throughout the state
of California, and in some districts
by rent and lease. have acquired pos
session of the lands for themselves.
! Central Labor Union, of Buffalo,
N. Y, will impose fine of 500 up
on any union withdrawing from the
central body.
| Union Cigarmakers' affiliated with
| the American Federation of Labor
are to make bitter fight against the
| introduction of the red label of the
Industrial Workers of the world in
Milwaukee.
| Holding that peaceful picketing is
not unlawful. Judge Gruman Of Rich
mond, Va, dissolved the Injunction
against the striking printers secured
by the Typothetae.
He said that the A. F. Of L. had
expanded the sum Of $61,694.29 dur
ing the past year In the work of or
! ganizing, exclusive of printed matter,
postage and other expenditures.
Unions affiliated with the United
Association Of Plumbers, Gas Fit
tiers, Steam Filters and Steam Fit
ters' Helpers are considering the ad-
visibility of establishing a home for
old and incapacitated pipe workers
Six hundred men and 500 girls
employees of a shirt factory on strike
in Philadelphia, won an increase in
wages and the piece work system.
There are over 100000 persons al