The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-08-03

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st. Louis, Mo.-International Ma
chinists Union convention will be in
this city.
Wilkesbarre, Pa--The United Mine
Workers organized IS new local
unions in June.
Ottawa, Canada.-During May 2ST
employees were injured in Canadian in
dustrial accidents.
Cincinnati, O.-After nine years Of
litigation, the constiuuonality law has
been affirmed by the United States
circuit court of appeals.
Paris, France-The bill fixing the
maximum time for labor in the mines
at eight hours per day was passed by
the chamber of deputies.
London, Eng-The Amalgamated
Society of Engineers commenced the
present year with 100000 members.
and a credit balance in its funds of
$4,000 pounds.
.-Twenty-six hundred and
/ sixty deaths were reported 10 the
I coroner in the year 1906, go of which
was the result of accidents in mills,
mines and on railroads.
Brussels.-The government of Bel
/ GUM having refused to pass a meas
ure reducing the hours of labor in
mines. was defeated on a vote taken
in the chamber of deputies.
London.-British boilermakers and
iron shipbuilders, according to the an
nual report, had total membership
at the close of 1906 of 52,056, an in
crease of 2.426 in the year.
London - The British Postmen's
Federation held its sixteenth annual
conference recently in Leeds. The
membership was stated to be 1888,
an increase of 446 in the year.
San Francisco.-The Broommakers
Union is making fight against con
vict-made brooms. 1t has asked or
ganized labor not to purchase any
broom that does not bear the unior
stamp.
st. Paul, Minn.-St. Paul Carpen
ters' Union, which withdrew from tbs
Structural Building Trades Alliance
some time ago, will reaffiliate, it /.
said, in accordance with action taker
at the recent general convention.
Belfast, Ireland.-That the Irish la
Dor element is not in favor of social
ism as one of the objects of the labor
movement was manifested by the
vote taken at the labor conference
held here. 1t was $4,000 against
10000 for.
Pittsburg.-The Machinists' Uniol
is devoting some time to the better
r ment of conditions in the city. RE
Gently it appointed a committee t
: see that a better car service was es
tablished. 1t proposes to interest a.
other organizations in the matter
Melbourne, Australia. - Fifty-on
e years ago the first Eight-Hour Leagu
in Australia was established here, an
parliament has not yet made eigh
hours legal days work. In this d
$ rection the unions have done NOR
= than parliament for wage earners.
Observation-Disclosures wages an
= shorter hours, in the large majorit
of cases without resort to strikes, i
: the report that organizers are senC
: ing in to the American Federation c
u Labor. The result of the continue
prosperity of the country has bee
e felt among the workingmen. Their
e is hardly trade that has not receive
an increase. In some places it is th
: carpenters, in others the brickIayer.
= and so on down the line.
. Racine, visa fight against tn
use of convict labor in the state {
e Wisconsin has been taken up by th
y Wisconsin State Federation of Labor
e A resolution was passed concernin
e the employment Of convict labor, an
> advising that the federation use ever
honorable means in fighting them.
also demands that all steps be take
e to prevent the manufacture of broom
e by convicts.
= Minneapolis.-A gigantic movemeI
- to establish a nine-hour weekly fc
s union machinists employed by raj
st roads throughout the northwes
s, which is expected to include blacl
g smiths and boiler-makers and en-
IS brace a total of &C, 200 men, has bee
g launched. The plan is being backe
principally by the Northwest Consol
= dated District of the Machinist
Union, although the blacksmiths an
s. boiler-makers, who also have powerfl
IN organizations, are looked to for acti1
Of cooperation on behalf Of their respe
le tive crafts. The Northwest Conso,
til dated District embraces all railroad
lie north of the Union Pacific lines ar
20 west of Chicago. A demand viii
- made upon them to make the min
hour day effective September /.
Hamburg, Germany-The "PatriC
lie Association of Labor Unions" hi
been formed here as a means Of O
lg posing socialists in the labor NOV
ne ment of that country.
II Minneapolis by L
II success of the operations of the 10;