Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-07-31


the smile 90 love ana trust
For the sweet lips waiting yondsr with
the kiss that heals the DUST
Baltimore Sun.
Brooklyn. n. Y-The silver work.
ers' strike for the nine hour day re
suited In complete victory for the
men
Toronto. Canada The Trades Coun-
ell has criticised police inspector FOR
granting permits To nonunion cab
drivers
Lewiston. Idaho Plumbers have
been granted an increase In wages OF
30 cents day, making the wage paid
five dollars
Boston The Massachusetts state
Federation OF state. city and Town
Employees unions has been permanent.
ly organized
Fort Edward. n Y.-An the paper
makers employed al the International
Paper company's plant went out on
strike recently
Guthrie. Okla-A plan to organize
Federation OF Labor I'm Oklahoma
with total membership OF not fewer
than $4,000, is contemplated
New Bedford Mass The Massa.
chusetts state convention OF the Ma
tionRl Association of Stationary Engi.
neers Will be held here July ~ and 10.
Seattle. Wash.--Orpanized labor is
warning all laborers 10 keep away
from Alaska, ON account OF the strikes.
actual and prospective. in that sec.
ton
Hammond. Ind Striking teamsters
celebrated victory over team owners
AT a massmeetlng Transfers will get
an advance amounting to two dollars
a week
Ottawa, Ont.-Conditions in the
Canadian cigar making industry have
been unsettled for some time. owing
to differences between the employers
and the union
Cleveland. On this city there are
20 crafts in he building trades sec.
ton. ~ In The metal trades section
eight I'm the allied printing trades and
"a In the miscellaneous
New Yorll-Gov Hughes has an.
sired by the child-labor committees
and the Consumers league. II pro.
yides that no minor under 10 years Of
age shall be- employed or permitted 20
work in any factory I'm New York
state before eight a. IN. or after I'VE
p. m. or more han eight hours IN any
one day. Al present "A nine.ho day
Is permitted between seven a. m. and
six p. m. The new law Will not be
come effective until January /. 1908.
Washington "A universal price list
and the general elght-hour workday in
every section Of the United states
and Canada DIS the plan proposed by
Steel and Copper Plate Printers
union
Washington - Samuel Gompers.
president of The American Federation
~ Labor is now engaged I'm the prep
aratiOn Of fhc manuscript for work
on the origin rise and progress Of or.
gained labor In this country. giving
complete review OF union labor and
what 80 has accomplished for the Ia
boring man In all probability the
work will lake up two or three large
volumes
Chicago Employees Of the North
western and Metropolitan elevated
roads practically were assured OF a
substsntia. Increase in wages propor
Tomato 20 that recently granted street
car men ON the South Side surface
lines A temporary schedule Of wages
said 10 be satisfactory to the union
committee vas drawn In the event
that increases are granted by ell the
elevated systems the 10000 car en-.
ploycs or chicago Will have obtained
The largest general addition 10 their
wages in five Years
London EnRlsnd.-The Labor party
In the house Of commons has tables
20 amendment 20 the finance bill Of
he British government. on the
grounds that b. doss not fuIhu Their
desires as egards old.ags pensions
and that rho nconstaE provisions are
Inadequate
Paris Ffsnce-America H. held 70.
sponsib.c fool he May day unrest ana
troubles .n suce a Paris evening
paper lay. .e Labor day disturbances
to the dooI 1. The United States. de.
cIsrInR fts May day and the conse.
quenf strikes and uprising are purely
au Americ.. nr.ltion
Mrs 49, d. Saunders. of East
IL