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The international convention Of steam.
littars and Helpers win be hold IA ne
trolt nsxt rear.
| The International union ct Ladies'
Garment Workers viii held convention
In Boston NEXT year.
Union labor IL renewing Interest IN the
proposition to establish magnificent la
Dor temple In Boston.
Thirty-six unions, out of o total OF
forty-slx In Duluth, Mimi, are affiliated
with the trades assembly.
A special committee Of the st. Paul
Trades Assembly Is looking into the mat
ter OF building lahor temple.
Vegetable vendors Of Brooklyn, N. T..
are talking Of organizing union to pro-
/ tect themselves from the middlemen.
Fall River (Mass) weavers have ac-
cepted compromise that 471a yards con-
stitute cut, and the threatened strike
Is of.
In the paper working industry in India
the average wages a day for men is 10
cents; women, cents, and children,
cents.
The largest shipbnilding firms are to be
found in the Baltic ports; large firms
have also established themselves on the
Elbe and Weser.
San Francisco (Cal.) Stone Cutters
Union, through its executive committee,
has decided to submit it's differences with
employers to arbitration.
Emma Gruber Foley, elected president
recently Of the Native Daughters of the
Golden West, is past president of the
Women's Auxiliary to San Francisco
Typographical Union No. p.
All chances of Boston garment work
ers becoming involved in the dispute Of
the suspended locals of New York and the
International Union are over. The B0s-
ton unions win support the national or
ganization.
Some 10000 Scotch miners have re-
newed their demand for an advance in
wages Of 121a per cent. The present
rates amount to about shillings pence
day in wages, SO that the demand is
considerable.
Corporation laborers at Calgary, Cam
ada, have received an Increase from %
to q cents an hour, and it has been de-
cided by the City Council that eight hours
shall constitute working day, except in
cases of necessity.
A blind mans union has been formed
In Paris. The members are the blind en-
ployes Of the National Institute for the
Blind who were dissatisfied with their
salaries. They threatened to strike and
received an increase.
The convention of theatrical stage EN-
ployes, held recently in Norfolk, Va, had
before it proposition to establish sick
benefit fund. also a funeral benefit fund.
1t was decided to submit this to. the sub
ordinate bodies for referendum vote.
Large crews of men have been going to
the West through the Minneapolis
(Minn.) employment Offices for long
time, Montana Iddhs, Wyoming, Wash
ingtoa and Oregon taking the bulk The
work supplied is understood to be railroad
building.
Abeat forty employees Of the New York,
New Haven and Hartford railroad have
been retired on pensions. The men 30 70
tired have been in the employ Of the com
pany from thirty-dve to forty years, and
win new receive from - to 81 a week
for the remainder Of their lives.
TIE Industries Of the United States
suffered less frsm strikes during 1906
than in any year since 1882. In 1905
thsfe were 221 ,686 employees thrown out
II work By 2,O77 strikes undertaken BY
176, 1877 strikers in $3.50 establishments
and lasting an average of twesty- three
days In each establishment involved.
The terrible disasters which have re-
Gently occurred in the local coal mines Of
Germany and France have directed the
Of scientists especially in the
former country, to introducing methods of
protecting the miners against recurrence
Bf such calamities, or at least Of dimin-
Ishing, as far as possible. the loss of life.
A Pastors Union, composed of all the
Protestant clergymen Of La Crosse, Wis,
b affiliated with the American Federation
II Labor. In that town members of the
Dther trades look upon the preachers as
brother workers, admit their delegate to
he meetings Of the Trades and Labor
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body at the meetings Of the clergymen.
The organization Of employees on the
railway lines of the United States dates
from the organizing of the Brotherhood
of the Footboard, at Detroit, Mich, May
;. 1863, by the locomotive engineers,
which association Is known as the Broth
srhood Of Locomotive Engineers Other
branches Of the transportation service fol-
lowed, from time to time, SO that now
sach branch Of the service ID organized.
The Massachusetts, State Commission
IN Commerce. and Industry, recently APP
pointed by Coy. Guild. has sent to many
abor men, ms well rs business men and
trade organizations officials, request to
send to 1t before Sept. statement Of
She ways each thinks that the commercial
and industrial prosperity Of the State can
De promoted, whether by changes in legis-
latiou, by public or private undertakings
,r otherwise.
Women Of Jersey City have started
novel organization. To establish d school