The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-09-23

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Gompers
OF the American Federation of Labor
states that the Federation probably
VIII bring n counter-suit against the
National Manufacturers association.
charging that body with conspiracy.
New York.-Twenty-one new locals
were chartered by the Amalgamated
Association of Street and Electric
Railway Employees in 1906. and the six
that had lapsed were revided. making
a total gain in membership of 6.701.
New York.-According to the sta.
ustics Of the Womens Trades Union
league, there are in this country over
100000 worhngmen. and about B..
100000 of them are in the trades and
professions susceptible of organize.
ton.
London. Eng.-The Northumberland
Miners Cancellation Board has agreed
to advance the wages Of underground
workers S q per cent, and the surface
workers per cent. Wages are now
$3.50 per cent above the basis Of
1879.
Washington. - Information has
reached the capital that Japanese are
getting into this country in large
numbers via British Columbia by paw
ment of what amounts practically to a
$50 head tax to the Canadian govern
ment.
Boston, Mass.--The recent advance
In wages in the textile mills in New
England amounting to per cent.
makes the wages prevailing in that
section the highest ever known. About
100000 operatives share in this adj
vance.
Antwerp Mr.. Hertzlett. British
consul general here. formally protest.
ed against the inadequate protection
given TO British ships during the
strike. Foreigners suspected Of being
fomenters of the disorder were ex
PEELED from Belgium.
Louisville.-The threatened strike
of the employees of the Louisville Rail-
way company. which was believed to
be inevitable. has been averted. Cred
1t for the settlement of the situation
belongs to Mayor Bingham, who Sc
cured the promise of the representa-
tives of the company to give the union
men further assurances that no dis
ordinations will be made against
them.
Cincinnati. - Amalgamated Sheet
Metal Workers International Alliance.
Local No. 141, has been sued for $40.
600 damages. The plaintiff alleges that
because he would not agree to GER
tain conditions of the union a strike
of his employees was called his place
of business picketed and he was there
fore prevented from properly conduct
ing business and earning customary
profits.
Nashville, Tenn-Gov Patterson, OF
Tennessee, has issued a call for a con-
ference of textile manufacturers and
labor representatives in all southern
states to be held in Nashville in Octo-
Der to consider the question of child
labor and female labor in shops and
factories, with a view of adopting a
uniform law that will be agreeable
and just to the respective parties in
interest
Pittsburg-Enough votes have been
received from locals of the Electrical
Workers union to show that the
agreement accepted by the telephone
companies and submitted to a refer
endum by the officers of the union has
been Overwhelmingly defeated. This
means prolongation of the strike de-
clared by the telephone linemen
against the Rocky Mountain, Bell and
Independent companies in Utah, Ida
no and Montana.
ST. Louis.-The Missouri Pacific
Iron Mountain Railway system volun-
tarily directed an increase in the sal
| aries of all its clerical force averag-
ing 10 per cent. effective the first day
Of last month The order increases the
pay roll about $4,000 year. There
are about 1000 clerical employees of
the Gould lines not affiliated with any
labor union.
MISUNDERSTANDING to one OF the
scandals that have arisen In connec-
ton with the organization of machin-
lists, the labor editor Of the Pittsburg
Dispatch writes: "One matter of vital
Importance, and an affair that has at.
tracted attention from coast to coast
where machinists are involved, will be
thoroughly threshed out at this gath.
ering, the convention OF the interna-
tional union now IN session at St
Louis. 1t is the charge that the Erie
railroad has for some years past been
paying the officers Of the information
al association a fixed sum Of $4,000
on the understanding that this com
pany be immune from strikes. Off
GERS Of the association deny the ale
cation, but the delegates have been
instructed to thoroughly investigate
the matter.
} Pittsburg.-The Glass Bottle Blow
) ers' association has membership oi
} $4,000. and its assets are approaching
the $1,000, 900 mark. There has beer
| no strike for 10 years. and that body
: is now one OF the strongest labor or