The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-18

OA1OuS III oWIIZeFlanQ nave a EOIaI
membership of 1852.
The percentage of children under
the legal age employed in New Jersey
factories is less than it has been for
many years, according to the annual
report of Col. Bryant, state commits
sioner of labor.
Another important step to be taken
by the Pennsylvania is the admission
to employment of men between 50
and As years of age At present no.
body past 35 is eligible to enter the
company's service. The rule was made
IN order that every employee obliged
to retire at IS would have 80 years
service to his credit and receive a
! pension Of not less than 80 per cent.
of his average earnings for his last ten
years of work
The Trades Union Congress of
France, at its annual session, held re-
Gently, defeated by $50 to 8 votes a
motion to enter into permanent rela-
lions with the socialists, and adopted
: a resolution to hold aloof from politics
and devote the energies of the trade
unions for the present to the ameliora-
| ton of the condition of the working
! men Of France, advocated a reduction
Of the hours of labor, the increase of
i wages, etc, but declared the adher-
/ ence of the congress to the principles
i OF general strike.
| A statement has been issued by the
/ war department to the effect that in
view of the changes which have taken
place in the management on the 18TH
mus, the persons making the bids for
Chinese labor on the Panama canal.
which have been long pending, have
| been notified that no action will be
taken in respect to them; that they
are released from any obligations I'M
der their bids, and that if occasion
should arise for a renewal of bids for
Chinese labor they would be notified.
A movement involving all of Okla
homa's organized labor, with the pur-
pose of concentrating all forces into
one af1iliation, with the intention to
dominate the political destiny of the
new state of Oklahoma, has been
launched by President E. d. Murlin of
the Central Trades Assembly of Okla
homa City and j. H. Lynch, secretary
of the State Federation of Labor Mr..
Lynch is now negotiating with a num-
Der of weekly and labor papers for the
consolidation OF them all into one pub
lication, with himself at the head of
1t. This will be done, he says, and he
will remove headquarters from Shaw
nee to Oklahoma City. The plan is to
organize a Federation of Labor In
Oklahoma City, with a total member
ship of not less than $4,000 This can
be accomplished by including labor
unions
Boston.-An unusually quiet May
day throughout New England, with
the exception of this city, was expert
enced in labor circles Minor troubles
in the building trades in some of the
cities and towns were the most dis
cordant notes outside the greater Bos-
ton district, where 1900 men went out
for higher wages, while the teamsters'
strike, which started a month ago.
was still in force with almost daily
the new men who went out were
boilermakers, numbering 1900. They
ask for ten per cent. increase in pay.
The cement and asphalt workers to
the number of 210 quit work pending
the results of deliberations by their
employers regarding a new wage ad-
justment. In the building trades and
other industries an amicable adjust
ment of existing differences was ex-
pected.
Philadelphia.-Afte vainly trying
to settle their trade dispute, which in
wolves the question of the granite cut
ters' right to set stone which they
have finished, the iourneymen brick
layers of this city to the number of
2,400 were locked out by the master
bricklayers. With the bricklayers are
affiliated the masons, about 400 in
number The lockout will affect almost
all branches of the house builders
unions and will involve 10000 work
men in this city and tie up nearly
every building operation.
At Altoona, where the shops and
yards of the Pennsylvania compose
what is called the greatest railroad
university in the world" there is a |
special course for the college man
trained as q mechanical engineer. /
The special apprentice" as he is
called, goeth through four years of
hard work-blaeksmith shop, wheel
shop, car shop, tank shop, and all the |
rest. Three months are given to firing |
an engine on the road The Special |
apprentice" is eligible to rise to be in
spector, assistant master mechanic. as
sistant engineer of motive power. /
master mechanic, superintendent of |
motive power.
Three thousand laborites at Johan-
nesburg, South Africa, have unani- |
resolved to urge the authori- /
ties to withdraw a circular which /
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