Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-10-01
IN THE LABOR WORLD
STRIKERS TIE UP VESSELS AT
NEW ORLEANS.

NEW ORLEANS. October About 500
longshoremen and teamsters went on strike
here on the river front yesterday when the
crews Of the Leyland and Austro- American
Line steamers started slowing cotton in
vessels. The strike was expected, the
steamship agents having failed to make an
agreement with the men.
1t is probable that 5000 men representing
various classes Of labor will become In
volved
Marine Engineers Will Not Quit.
NEW YORK. October ALI danger Of a
strike OF the marine engineers on the
ocean and coastwise steamship lines whose
vessels sail from this port bearing the
American flag has been averted. The de-
mands, which were to go into effect yes
terday. were for increase in wages aver
aging 10 per cent and number of rules
governing overtime. 1t was declared last
evening by representatives Of both the COM
panies and the men that satisfactory ar
rangement had been reached.
Railway Clerks Strike.
TOLEDO. Ohio. October 1.-Striking rail-
way clerks here now number $50 and the
strikers expect go more men out within
forty-eight hours. Business is being ham
died with little interruption by roads. The
striking clerks threaten to call out men,
bers of the union in Columbus Cincinnati,
Indianapolis and other cities reached by the
roads affected
Steel Patternmakers Laid Of.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
PITTSBURG. Pa. October 1.-The United
States Steel Corporation has laid off over
100 pattern makers at the Homestead mills
of the Carnegie Steel Company This is
tne hrst instance SO far known. OF the
laying Off Of skilled workmen by the big
corporation. 1t Is stated that more dis
charges Of the same class of employees will
be made in the near future.
Trouble at Cornell.
ITHACA. n. Y, October 1.-The Cornell
students and members Of the faculty are
facing a fall and winter season without
new clothes. One hundred union tailors
employed by the local merchant tailors went
out on strike yesterday. There are 1850
Cornell students in town. many of whom
have their clothes made by local tailors,
and 1t Is estimated that five to six hundred
suits have already been ordereds while the
number of new overcOats. raincOats and
other garments the books is very large
There is no possible way, if the strike con-
uEues, for the tailors to get the work out
in many months.
Eight Hours For Signal Men.
ALBANY, October 1.-The eight-hour
state law applying to block system tele-
graph and telephone operators on rail-
roads goes into effect today and thereby the
New York Central will have to employ 800
and the Delaware and Hudson fifty addi-
tional operators. The federal law which
regulates the hours of station operators
goes into force March l next and will de-
mand another increase in the number Of
employees. In order to obtain the necessary
men, the New York Central established
schools in this city and in Rochester. The
school in this city has a class of seventy
five. The pay of the old operators. who
will hereafter work eight instead of twelve
hours, has been reduced but it is believed
the matter vii. be satisfactorily adjusted
this fall.
Bookbinders and Stampers Out.
BOSTON October About 200 book
binders and stampers employed in shops in
this city, Cambridge and Norwood went
or strike today in effort to secure a
work day of eight hours. The movement
among the bookbinders for an eight-hour
day is national in its extent The men
who struck today compose minority of the
union binders in this city. firms employing
about 800 union members having acceded
10 the demand for day of eight hours.