The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-03-03
LABOR | / ! 0 / NOTES \ l ! ]:
i. '.> :: FROM THE FIELD

Public WORKS, dated December 27, 1906,
a nine-hour working day was intro
duced recently In tho State Railway
on Main, Magdenburg and Posen Rail-
way districts. and time wages were in
creased 50 that no decrease in the
workmen's wages should result from
the reduction In working hours.
A number of coal operators have de-
clared that in event of strike no eff
fort will be made to run the mines
with non-union men.
School teachers at Tamaqua, Pa,
threaten to strike II they are not paid
for time lost when the schools were
closed during q smallpox epidemic.
The Pattern Makers League of North
America at it's recent convention
raised the assessment Of it's members
from 26 to 80 cents per week. 1t is
proposed to- use the money that IL
paid in dues in Strengthening and
building up the organization and pay
for placing organizers in the field in
this country and Canada.
The Saturday half holiday all the
year round has been decided upon by
Boston Bricklayers' unions, and has
been made a part of the working rules
of that city and vicinity.
The Brotherhood Of Railway Train
men is going to build an international
home, and $4,000 has been set aside
to start with.
In the 270 British trade unions with
total membership of $1,000. making
returns 2S,734 Cor 4.9) per cent? were
unemployed at the end of the previous
month, and 7.6 per cent at the end OF
December 1904.
Pennsylvania State Federation OF
Labor will meet in convention in Phil
adelphia March IT.
Notice has ben served on the cler-
ical force under the Pennsylvania
Railroad auditor of merchandise
freight receipts. that the working
hours of the 400 clerks will be length
ened one and one-half hours day.
FIFTEEN violators of the Ohio Child
Labor law have ben arrested in Gin
ing the crusade against employers who
have ben working minors in violations
of the child labor law.
Out Of 17S,059 members Of 1854
French trade unions which made re-
turns to the French labor department,
as to the state of employment 1856
or 1914 per cent wer out Of work in
November as compared with SO per
cent in the previous month and 11.6
per cent in November 1904.
Patterson. N. J. carpenters have been
conceded an increase of 60 cents
day, effective May 1.
The Philadelphia, (Pa.) Central La
Dor union has decided to take up the
fight Of the International unions of
Engineers and Firemen against the
Philadelphia Lager Beer Brewers as
ISOLATION.
It is said an effort is to be made to
spread the strike Of the structural iron
workers from New York to other large
cities.
Farm hands in Hungary are organ
1zing for the purpose of going on a
strike nevtsharvest time. .> ,s<
Berlin Germany. lithographers and
litho printers, have without strike
obtained an eight hour day for litho-
graphers and n1ne-houf day for print
ers.
The head quarters Of the interna-
tional Brotherhood of Electrical Work.
ers, have ben removed from Washing
ton, D. c., to Springfield Ill.
Street car men Of Chicago who have
ben working seven day weeks want a
day of each week.
Five hundred woodworkers employed
at a Chicago furniture factory are on
strike against the Introduction of
piece work, longer hours and the open
shop.
ant Dol 0f T1,ho hoer
a measure passed by Congress prohibit
ing the importation of foreigners to
work In the ports during strikes.
The constitutionality of the new
Pennsylvania factory law will be test
ed by several large factory owners.
The failure Of congress to pass the
100000 Naval Deficiency Appropriation
bill has resulted in a reduction of A.
per cent in the force of the Navy Yard
employees.
Freight handlers, numbering about
! 900 employed at the West Shore Rail-
road yards in Weekawken have gone
on strike to enforce a demand for
double pay for Sundays and one hour
! and g. half time regular pay for over
| time.
A corps of organizers of the Interna-
tional seamen's union will canvass the
Atlantic coast thoroughly. A bill will
| be introduced in Congress providing
| for more efficiency of seamen on pas
| senger vessels.
The Baltimore Federation of Labor
| has caused a bill to be drafted for the
purpose of mending the city charter so
as to permit only voters of the city
and state to be employed upon public
| works.
| Many unions in Great Britain pay
out work, sick funeral, superannu-
| ated benefits, and in addition have a
special fund to provide homes.
Four of the large. engraving shops
of Chicago have signed the } union
| agreement with the photo engravers
The agreement is for three years.
Five crews of men are to leave Chi
cago from the Steam Shovel and
Dredgemen's union under contract 70,
work in the harbors of Chilli. The Chi
cago union is also being called upor
for crews of men who are sent tt
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