Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-07-18


/ horseshoers has lately been formed.
Philadelphla.-The Hapgood child
labor bin was defeated i'm the Penn
sylvania house recently on the ground
that. as amended. the bill was un-
constitutional
Hamburg, Germany.-The Patriot
&c Association OF Labor Unions"
mas been formed as a means of oppos-
ing socialists in the labor movement
OF that country
Burr Oak. lll-One hundred and
twenty-five freight handlers and clerks
have gone on strike against the Rock
Island road because their demands for
more wages were refused
Minneapolis, Minn.-Fourteen or.
/ CARNATIONS have affiliated with the
Minnesota State Federation of Labor
since April 10. and this number may
be doubled before the convention
meets this month.
San Francisco.-Street Garments
union having failed TO secure the
eight-hour day In the recent arbitra-
/ ton proceedings, will ask the board
/ OF supervisors to insert an eight-hour
provision in it's future franchises
Edinburgh Scottish concilia.
/ ton board decided TO concede six
and onefOWth per cent advance i'm
wages at its meeting i'm Glasgow. to
come into effect at once This is the
+ third advances i'm the present year.
/ The concession affects 10000 miners
| Detroit Mich.-After several weeks
/ correspondence between the two or.
I carnations, the National Foundry
mems association has decided to CO.
/ operate with the Pacific Coast Foun-
/ drymen's association in the effort to
/ break the strike which exists i'm sew
eral branches OF the iron trade along
the coast
/ Washington.-Th latest and most
/ up-to-date form of government sick
Insurance is now being considered by
/ Holland. The proposed insurance is
/ obligatory, and extends to all labor
ers employed regularly Every labor
! er, l6 years old, who receives less
/ than $3.50 year, is obliged to insure
| himself and family against the risk OF
! illness.
Swansea. England.-A conference
/ between the unions engaged in the
steel trade and the employers result.
ed In an eighthour working day be-
/ ing conceded; also other concessions
were granted, by means of which the
IoWerpaid men will not suffer i'm pock-
ct through the reduction OF hours
This decision affects 5000 men. II
VIII provide work for 800 men ad.
ditional
Boston.-CIgar Factory Tobacco
/ shippers union recently presented
an Increased wage list to the cigar
/ manufacturers. The c.. l.. u. unani.
/ mously Endorsed the requests as fair
and equitable and pledged full support
OF organized labor i'm Boston I'm anv
efforts necessary to- obtain a better
ment OF wages and conditions for the
300 women and girls who compose the
union.
Albany, n. "a decision which
T VIII be farreaching regarding the EN-.
. ployment of women was handed down
/ by the New York court of appeals
when il held that the penal law pro.
+ viding that women shall be EMPLOYED
IN factories only within certain hours
is unconstitutional, and thereby sus-
tanning decision of the lower courts
The court maintains that adult won.
I en- must be recognized as on an equal
| plane with men i'm matters of employ.
+ ment and that the state cannot exer
/ else any authority 10 prohibit or limit
their hours of work
/ San Francisco There Is a move
ment on foot to- organize the statesmen
/ I'm cigar stores
Toronto, Canada-t is possible
/ that the dispute between the master
/ plumbers and men will be submitted
to arbitration
Fair Haven, Vt-There is a strike
+ of the slate workers I'm and around
this city that has practically tied up
all the quarrics i'm the vicinity. The
, men are AN members Of the Interna.
7 tional Union of Slate Workers. and
/ are connected with the American FED.
/ GRAFTON o.. Labor The strike as for
/ reduction of the work day from ten
. hours to nine hours without reduc-
. ton off pay. The wages have been 81
. and $3.50 day of ten hours
San Francisco. Cal-LOcaI Union
+ SO. 3D. United brotherhood of Car.
penters and Joiners has unanimously
. adopted resolution tO the effect that
any member known Co violate any
law of The state or city bv interfering
boz amy way with strike breakers or
nnnnni0n men or riding ou any car
/ rum hF uOuuuIOn man shall be fined
$25 for the first Offeusc. and the fine
. Increased Boy $40 for each succeeding
o6onse."