Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-10-09
IN LABOR CIRCLES
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Conditions Of employment in the first
| six months of this year are given in the
New York Labor Bulletin recently is
sued. 1t is stated that these conditions
have not been so favorable as in the
| record year 1903. but they surpassed those
of 1905, which was the next best year.
Returns to the bureau of labor statistics
from associations of working people with
membership Of more than $4,000 wage
earners in eighty-five different trades and
occupations show that the average
monthly number OF idle workmen was
147 per LOGO in the first half of 1907 as
compared with Isl in the corresponding
period of 1908, ION in 1906 and an aver
age>of 164 for the last five years.
Building operations, 1t Is added which
were retarded by the severity of the win
ter. are now unusually active in all the
large cities. In New York the number
OF buildings begun and the number com
pleted in the second quarter of the pres
ent year exceeded the record of last year.
and the estimated cost of projected build
ings fell but little short of the 1906 rec
ord the decline in the erection of houses
in Manhattan and the Bronx having been
almost counterbalanced by an increase in
office buildings, etc. In both Rochester
and Syracuse new records in the build
ing department were attained and I'm
Buffalo there was a large increase over
the average of recent years, although
the total was somewhat below the fig
ures for the corresponding months of
last year.
An unusually large number of labor dis
putes characterized the early summer,
the most important of which was the
strike of $1,000 longshoremen in New
York
Secretary r. L. Kent Of the Heat
Frost, General 1nsulators and Asbestos
Workers Local Union No. "a is regard
ed as one Of the best strategists in the |
ranks of local labor He is accredited |
with being good organizer. and is well |
posted in labor matters. This local is
the latest union to be formed in the |
District. 1t Is affiliate with the Cen |
trail Labor Union and has a healthy |
membership.
The local members Of the International
Union of Carriage and Wagon Workers |
express themselves as much gratif1ed at
the election Of Henry c. Stein of this city
to the presidency of that organization |
Prior to his election as president Mr. |
Stein was first vice president of the gem
eral organization in charge of the unions
In the states of Maine. New Hampshire |
Vermont Massachusetts, Rhode Island, |
Connecticut, New York. Pennsylvania, |
New Jersey, Delaware. Maryland, Virginia
and West Virginia. In connection with
his official work travelling over his terri |
tory he also filled the position of a special
organizer Of the American Federation of
Labor.
Secretary Of Commerce and Labor |
Straus announces that President Roosevelt
Is enthusiastic about perfecting the ma
tional organization for promoting indus |
trial peace, the foundation for which was
assured by the $4,000 bestowed on the |
President as recipient of the Nobel peace |
prize. The Secretary stated that labor |
Commissioner Neill is to be made score |
tary of the reorganization, and a popular
subscription of 81 OOO. 600 is to be raised.
The convention Of the International AS |
ISOLATION of Machinists at ST. Louis. Mo. |
September IA. voted $4,000 for the bene- |
fit Of the Erie railroad strikers |
The Postal Telegraph Company has be-
gun suit at Chicago against the telegra- |
piers union for failure to pay for mes |
sages sent by the men after the strike |
had begun.
Fifty-seven Japanese miners arriving
at Attn. Wash, September 10, to work
in the mines, were escorted to the river
steamer Cleaner by 800 whites and start
ed back to Vancouver. British Columbia
The Canadian trades and labor con-
gress. in annual session at Winnipeg |
Canada, recently passed a resolution urg-
ing the abrogation Of the treaty between
Great Britain and Japan SO as to pave the |
way for Japanese exclusion.
]. p Holland. president Of the National |
Letter Carriers Association, announced |
to the convention of that body that he |
would not be a candidate for reelection.
owing to the attitude assumed toward
him by the post office officials.
Under the name of the Producers and
Consumers International Equity Union
and Cooperative Exchange a central
body has been formed at Chicago on such
broad lines that all present organizations
among the farmers can affiliate with it.
The threatened strike of the employees
of the Louisville Railway Company.
which was believed to be inevitable. has
been averted for the present at least ow-
ing to an arrangement reached through
the Intervention Of Mayor Bingham.
The strike Of shoe cutters at St Louis
Mo-. resulted in general strike of shoe
workers September 20. and eighteen shoe
factories. employing 30. 600 workmen, are
idle The lasters. edgemakers' trimmers
bottomers, stock filters and stitchers