The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-07-27

and deed:
Marching resistlessly onward. blazing
and burning the way.
We are the hosts who aecomplish-we are
the men of to-day.
New York-Italian cigarmakers re-
Gently organized in this city.
Boston.-Union labor is renewing
interest in a proposition to establish a
labor temple here.
Wilkesbarre, Pa.-The lace mills
have advanced the wages of LOO en-
ployes ten per cent
Newark, \. J.-One of the pioneer
labor unions Of this country is the
journeymen stone cutters of this city,
organized May 10, 1884.
Boston.-Owing to Chinese competi-
ton an anu-Asiatic league has been
formed in New England to advocate
a Chinese poll tax of $4,000.
New ork-International Photo En-
gravers' union has signed a five-year
arbitration agreement with the Ma
tional Publishers association.
Washington.-The headquarters of
the International Union of Carriage
and Wagon Workers of America will
shortly be established in this city.
London.-The British government
has appointed Mr.. Ernest AYES as com
missioner to investigate on the spot
the workings of the various labor laws
Of Australia.
London.-The iron puddlers' wages
in the midlands of England were in
creased recently. At the same time
other mill forge wages were increased
215 per cent.
Swansea, England.-A recent con.
ference between the unions engaged
in the steel trade and the employers
resulted in an eight-hour working day
being conceded.
South Omaha, Neb.-The entire
working force of all the packing
houses, comprising about 5000 men
were recently notified that an advance
in wages of from 8 to Is per cent. has
been granted them.
Washington.-No sign of a trade
union label has been found earlier
than 1874. It appears to be wholly of
| American origin, nor is any evidence
at hand that unions elsewhere, except
| in Canada, show special interest in it.
4 San Sebastian, Spain.-The entire
/ northwest of Spain may be tied uI
! by a gigantic strike, the beginning oil
/ which was the declaration of a gen
/ eral strike at the meeting of several
! thousand miners at Bilbao. 1t is be
! lieved that the movement will spread
rapidly to the mine districts Of San
lander and Asturias. The labor unions
4 of the whole of Catalonia are prepar
| ing for a general strike.
Washington.-The most potent and
far-reaching influence at work in the
labor world are the labor journals, oil
which 185 monthly and 70 weekly
publications are issued in the United
States and Canada
Washington - The payment Of
money by the Erie Railroad company
to secure immunity from strikes vii
be investigated by those in this city
belonging TO the International Associa
ton of Machinists. A meeting d
| Washington lodge Of machinists wa:
held to have a committee appointed
and sent to New York to investigate
the allegations and secure further IN
formation.
Minneapolis.-The Minneapolis con
vention of the A. F. of L. directed tina
in order to extend the propagand:
work of the federation organizers
and also to furnish a theoretical a.
well as a ready reference guide I,
speakers and writer's on labor topics
that there should be compiled, unde
the supervision of the executive board
a textbook containing the essentia
principles Of unionism and such othe
information as may be deemed neces
sary. The compilation of the data /
being speedily completed.
Paris, France. - The authoritie
have discovered an emigration agenc
which is shipping Roubaix weavers I
Paterson, y. J., and Lawrence. Mass
thus enabling those cities TO compel
with the products Of French cite
producing similar manufactures.
Seattle. Wash.-Speaking to a lars
gathering Of the Christian Endeavc
delegates here, the Rev. Edwin Hey
Delk, pastor Of st. Matthew's Luthera
church, Philadelphia, denounced th
action Of the governor of Idaho in th
alleged kidnapping Of Meyer and Ha,
wood. He also asserted that III
judiciary OF Idaho was corrupt.