The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-09-14


accidents during the past year in the
mines of Nanaimo, B. c.
Boston.-The International Union
Of Ladies' Garment Workers viii hold
a convention here next year.
London.-More than 100, 900 railway
servants in England are required to
work from II to 10 hours per day.
Ottawa, Canada-Average wages in
Canada have increased 81 per cent. in
five years, according to the census re
port.
Minneapolis, NINA new union,
the Twin City Mattressmakers was
organized in st. Paul and Mime
apolis.
Nancy, France.--Eight hundred car
penters and pointers are out on strike
for ten.hour DAY and increase of
wages.
Burlington, vt-vermont state
branch, A. F. of L, was in convention
recently. Great gains in membership
were reported.
! Charleston, s. C.-The 60-hour-a-
week schedule will be put IN force in
the cotton mills of South Carolina
January 1, 1908.
New York-The NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
of the retail clerks international re-
ceives on an average from 5000 to s.
500 pieces of letter mail month.
Limoges, France.-Owing to labor
troubles the two big Haviland porce-
lain factories here have been closed,
and $4,000 workmen are locked out.
Beverly, n. 1.-THE Turner Birk-
head hosiery mills have closed down,
throwing 200 employees out of work,
due to the difficulty of getting yarn.
Canton, O.-The annual session of
the National Association of Letter
Carriers was held in this city. This
was the sixteenth annual conven-
ton.
New York-A National Association
of Carpet Workers of America has
been organized. This will have juris
diction of about 10000 persons EN-
ployed in carpet mills.
Copenhagen.-The shipwrights have
struck, an increase of wages having
been refused by the employers. The
answer of the employers association
was to lock out the organized men.
Evansville, Ind.-Over 175 iron
molders went on strike here because
of an order issued at tie two stove
foundries preventing the drinking Of
beer on the premises during the moor
, hour.
London, Eng.-The establishment o
minimum wage in New Zealand
doesn't prevent the best workers from
getting a higher rate, according to ;
member of the Employers association
there.
Seattle, Wash.-The wages of me
chanics in Yukon territory, per ia.
of ten hours, is SO; common labor
ers, with board, 81 to So; withou
board, Sc; draft teams, per day (tw'
, horses), $25; clerks, per month, SIC
; to $500.
Denver.-At a session of the join
t conference of representatives Of tn
IL principal western railroads an
representatives of their employees
was practically agreed that a two-cen
an hour advance in the wages of YARD
: men will be conceded by the railroad:
providing the railroad unions agree t
q certain conditions regarding overtim
and the right Of the roads to emplo
and discharge men for what they COZ
slider good cause.
> New York-The girl members {
. the Shirtmakers' union, in session &
= Grand Lyceum hall, Manhattan, ca
: ried away by enthusiasm for the
h cause and having no other availabl
means to float their strike, diveste
Il themselves of brooches, breastpin
g bracelets, watches, lockets, chain
g rings, ETC., and authorized the strik
i leaders to sell them and add the SUI
t to their strike fund The strike
for recognition of the union by tt
, Contractors association and is undt
. consideration by the state board
i, arbitration.
London.-The Evening News a
nounces that the anarchist congress
at Amsterdam was completely ma
IClOu ny Tie NlOlSnL american ScQOC
> led by Emma Goldman and Boginsk
: The congress resulted in the found
> ton of a Red International" whic
Is is to be a federation of the anarchis
II OF the whole world for a more effe
tive struggle against government
II and capital The new society, accor
Ing to the programme, recognizes te
- rorism as the only means Of emanC
= pating the producing classes. Ever
lie workman's duty is TO destroy thos
/" tyrants who Immediately Cypress hill
k Brussels.-The Belgian labor depa1
ment publishes statistics relating
. strikes that have taken place in b
GUM from 1901 to 1905. There we
altogether 474 strikes, in which IA
, s87 workers with 9,2T6 women) we
concerned