Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-12-13


London. Eng The anticipated rail.
road strike throughout Great Britain.
tho idea OF which caused great con.
Germ, has been ayerted by agreement.
signed hy the chairmen OF the princi.
rai railroad companies aud representa-.
lives OF The Amaleamated Society OF
Railway Servants. The agreement
provides I'm general for the cOnsidera-
tion OF further matters in dispute pri.
WUily by a sectional board of concilia.
ion representing the various grades OF
employees and the individual railroads.
IN last resort the matter win be set.
tied by arbitration. Tho directors OF
the railroads bind themselves 90 com.
pulsory outside intervention in dis
potes with their employees The board
ui Cancellation viii be composed i'm
every case OF elected employees of the
companies concerned. as well as on
cials of the various railroads.
Washington. The revenue of the
American Federation og Labor is de
rived mainly from tax levied on each
union at the rate OF onchalf Of one
cent per month from each member In
good standing of international unions.
OF ten cents per month from each
mombel OF local and federal unions
having 40 interLa,lonals. five cents OF
which is applied 10 defense fund.
ANA az iNcl taN OF $3.50 per duarcr
From each city aud state body. The
rAacuut, council also has power to
l'N> 't.r .1"us on all affiliated
unions TO- sJH un unions engaged i'm
ndu .al conl'c the lcyies not tn
exec uac cent irt member per week.
ana Ter not moio .an ten weeks in
car' year
lonuon Eng David LLOYD George,
president Of Che British board of trade
'5 ne most acclaimed man in Enc
hnd II was through his earnest and
Intelligent work that a strike Of the
galway employees of Great Britain.
which probably would have caralyzed
the business life of the whole conn
Try. was aycrted. The solution OF Tie
d(ticulty between the managers and
employees of the railroads has peece
with honor. It IL said. 90 both sides
IL Is In the nature OF compromise
but 1T gives the employees something
they greatly wished fm-an agree.
ment for compulsory arbitration OF dis
pdtos
New York.-it is reported plans are
BEING discussed Tor federation OF
railroad employees, hat strike of the
members of one brotherhood will i'm.
voHe a strike OF the other The or
sanizations arc the Brothcrhoods OF
locomotive Engineers. Locomotive
liremen. and Railway Trainmcn. and
The Orders of Railroad Conductors and
Railroad Telcgrapheis The brother
hoods are federated ON some railroad
systems. but this has acted SO far as
a preventive of strikes.
New York Plans for the formation
of local and district antichiId labor
leagues throughout the state are well
under way ar Albany; also plans for
the formation Of q state league. The
recent convention of the New York
state WorkiHgmen' Federation at
Syracuse adopted resolutions favor
ing the league. and instructed the
delegates 10 take the matter M with
their locals and do what they could
toward effective organization.
Bostcn.-Receipts Of the fnterna.
tional Photo Eugrayers union for the
year ending september I. 1907. were
$lNHli-'o, while expenses were Si3.-
,oN.dO. There is balance in IN,
general treasury of $25.4GilS. From
january 1901, 20 june. 1907 the
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