Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-10-18


Wkrkers organized IS new local unions
iTfJune.
Stockton. Cal-Wages OF carpenters
WIRE Increased so per cent recently
n T. scale IS nov $3.50 a day.
San Fraucisco.-AnnOunce has
ssssn made that all Italian barber
shops in the city have been unionized.
New York.-Drug clerks throughout
the Atlantic states are forming unions
and Joining the retail clerks intorna-
tional union.
Des Moines. lathe proposition 20
establish an old age home for miners
Was defeated by the Iowa mine work
ers on a referendum vote.
Glasgow-The Scottish Cooperative
society was organized in 1865 Will a
capital of less than $4,000. Now 1t has
capital OF more than $1,000, 600.
London. England.-There is consld-
cradle unrest in Lancashire by res-
SON OF the demand of the cotton spin
ners for an advance OF five per cent.
Toronto, Canada-The structural
iron workers have been granted an
increase in wages OF 2IS cents per
hour and threatened serious strike
ayerted
Bath, Me.-John @. Longley, OF this
city. recently rounded out 40 years
continuous service as an iron end
brass molder. He is probably the old
ost molder in the state.
Chicago.-The United Brotherhood
OF Carpenters during 1906 paid bene-
fits amounting to 100000, and the
death and disability claims during
that period amounted to S21S,202
Philadelphia.-More than 1000 per.
sons were killed last year In the coal
mines OF Pennsylvania, according to
the annual report of James Roderick.
chief OF the department OF mines.
Chicago Internation-
al union is now combating a lockout
In Georgia and strike at Mobile. Ala.
the latter for an increase of wages.
There is also strike at Havana,
Cuba.
New York.-An expert who has been
compiling data on strikes declares that
the greatest number of strikes occur
In the building trades, and that the
second greatest number Is in the tex
tile trades
London, England. highest acct
dent death rate among industrial work.
ers in Great Britain is among seamen
(53 per 10000, and the death rate OF
seamen in sailing vessels Is three
times as great as even this ratio.
Chicago.-Non-union pipe men EN-
ployed by the Wabash caused a dis
cord among the union men in other
departments and the road ended the
strike by permitting the union men
to return at an increase I'm pay from
70 to 81 certs per hour. The strike
lasted about two months.
ngton.-Arrangeme are be-
Ing completed between the American
Federation of Labor and national trade
unions of England, Scotland, Germany.
Denmark. Austria, Belgium, Norway.
Netherlands and other foreign coun.
tries to interchange union cards be
tween unions of kindred crafts and
callings. In addition to this worldwide
movement between the organized
wage workers Of the world, the Ameri.
can Federation OF Labor and the Amer
lean Society of Equity (the farmers
unions of the United States) have
formed an alliance. The organized
wage workers of the world represent
more than 100000 people The more
advanced leaders propose an interna-
tional convention of all craft unions.
Duluth. Minn.-The strike of the
ore dock workers is at an end, and the
men returned to work. Nothing has
been gained by the men who went out
nor have they lost anything except
their time. Their status is the same
as 1t was the day they voted to strike.
All Of the employees of the Duluth, Mis-.
sabe & Northern road were taken
back by the company without preiu-
dice, and the pay they have been re-
ceiving under verbal agreement with
the company, which would not have
expired until October 81, next. will
continue.
New York.--International Associa-
ton OF Machinists made a demand on
behalf of the machinists OF New York
and Vicinity for an increase in wages
OF % cents a day, affecting $1,000
men. The Amslgamated Society Of
Engineers has made similar demand
for about 1000 machinlsts I'm that or
ganization, which takes in about 30
Of the metal shop trades This is the
first time the international Association
of Machinists and the Amalgamated
Society Of Engineers. which has its
headquarters I'm England, and is an
international body, have united in
demand
St Petersburg-A big strike Of agri-
cultural laborers is being prepared I'm
kiev, Russia. The governor threatens
10 have recourse to military force. n
necessary, to meet the situation.
New York.-The last New York La.
Dor Bulletin, just issued by the depart
nent OF labor gives the number of
organized men and women in the I'm
Jire state as SOS. f9I
San Francisco The telephone oper-
1tors, who have been out on strike
since May 2. returned to work under
he same conditions prevailing when
they walked out The strike was de.
clared of.
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