The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1907-06-08
BIC DEMAND FOR MILL
men : ON PACIFIC COAST
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Said That Twenty Thousand Men
T.. Are Wanted in Washington
Woods. I.
Labor Conditions on Pacific
Coast Thriving Labor Is
Prosperous.

Coast Thriving Is
Prosperous. q
SPOKANE, WASH. June G.-Twenty
thousand men are needed by the lurn-
ber mills operating in eastern Wash
ington and Oregon, northern Idaho
and British Columbia. The situation
has become SO acute that unless men
can be secured at once some Of the
mills will be forced to close, sending
their laborers into the woods. The
western Pine Shippers association had
delegated James F. McGoldrick Lum-
Der company; E. F. Cartier Van Dis
sci, manager of the Phoenix Lumber
company; and John C. Barline, treas
urer of the Washington Mill company,
to devise ways of securing men for
this summers work, and agents will
be sent out to engage men. w. c..
Ullford, president of the association,
gave out this statement: @
Demand Is Unlimited.
1T will require $4,000 men to keep
10000 men at work, and we will give
every man we can find. We want
skilled labor and men of capability and
stability who will not quit their jobs
every few days. TO men with fam
flies the members of our associations
cutting more than 100000, 900 feet of
lumber year will pay better wages
than are offered in any other part Of
the United States and Canada for
similar work. There has never been
time when labor was so scarce as it
Is this summer, and unless We can get
men some Of the mills will have to
close"
Union Labor Active. -
The following report Of labor con-
d1tions in Spokane was made by
Thomas 1vey, second vice president
Of the Washington State Federation
of Labor. at a meeting of the executive
committee:
unions in better conditions than
ever, with better prospects. Except
five or six affiliations in the near
future. Mayor Moore has, in a speech,
pledged himself as not being in any
way antagonistic to the union organ
izations; efforts are being made to
bring the structural building trades
unions into closer business relations
with. the other unions through the
central labor body. The initiative and
referendum amendment to the charter
was adopted and the representative.
will look into the matter Of the high
percentage of voters necessary to use
its provisions to legislate city laws.rs
orsaniz 70 Building Trades.
The State Federation Of Labor will
start movement to have the various
central bodies in Washington incor-.
porate with the trades section provi-.
sion, taking in the buildings trades
councils as the buildings trades sec.
tfon of the central body. The follow
ing resolution has been passed by the
executive committee Of the state fede-
ration:
'Resolved, that we recommend to the
unions Of the state and the central
bodies to organize under the rulings
Of the executive council of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor, making the
building trades section of the cent
raj BODY
Stores Close Saturday.
Grocers and meat dealers belonging
to the Spokane Grocers' association
and large percentage of those who
are affiliated with the organization
have closed their places at 8 o'clock
Saturday evenings, beginning June 4.
Secretary E. N. Cory Of the Grocers
association said:
THE closing Of these stores is be-
ing made voluntarily by the grocers
and meat dealers. The grocers have
decided that 1t was no more than
just to the clerks and for the welfare
Of all concerned to take this action.
The new regime went into effect June
1. We are meeting with but little
difficulty in promoting this scheme.
there having been but two meat deal-
ers and two or three grocery stores
who have refused to close"
Scale For Walters.
The second highest scale paid to
walters in the United States is now
being paid by the leading cafes and
dining rooms of Spokane. Some time
ago the walters drew up their new
scale and submitted 1t to the proprlet-
ors, with the understanding that they
were to demand the. wages on June 15.
Several of the employers took the mat
ter up at once and began paying the
scale without waiting for the time to
arrive, which had been set BY the
walters. The scale follows: Ten
hour men, SIS week with so cents
an hour for overtime; six-hour men,,
$3.50 a. week, with 30 cents an hour
for overtime; >12-hour men, $3.50 per
~vr u L - ~
for two hours. For fairs and car
n1vals. $21 q week, straight overtime.
These wages include board.