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

vienna.-Austria haa 2.4o4 local
unions, with total membership of
328.o99.
st. Louis, Mo-International Ma
chinists' Union convention Will be in
this city.
Wiikesbarre, Pa-The United Mine
Workers organized IS new local
unions in June.
Ottawa, Canada.-nuring May 2S7
employees were injured IN Canadian in
dustrial accidents.
Cincinnati, O.-After nine years Of
litigation, the constiutionality 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 10000 members,
and a credit balance in its funds of a
$4,000 pounds.
Pittsburg.- Twenty-six hundred and
{ 6iAty uCdlnS were I6HOllGQ lO iUG
coroner in the year 1906. 91s of which
was the result of accidents in mills,
mines and on railroads.
Brussels.-The government of Bel
2 GUM having refused TO pass a meas
t ure reducing the hours of labor in
e mines, was defeated on a vote taken
4 IN the chamber of deputies.
London.-British boilermakers and
iron shipbuilders. according to the an
S nual report, had total membership
o 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
II conference recently in Leeds. The
e membership was stated to be 15,3SS,
IS an increase of 446 in the year.
II San Francisco.-The Broommakers'
Union is making a fight against con.
;, vict-made brooms. 1t has asked or.
ganized labor not to purchase any
broom that does not bear the union
t. stamp.
y st. Paul, Minn.-St Paul Carpen
s. ters' Union, which withdrew from the
Structural Building Trades Alliance
ie some time ago, will reaffiliate, it is
- said, in accordance with action taker
u at the recent general convention.
Belfast, Ireland-That the Irish la
It Dor element is not in favor of social
= ism as one of the objects of the labor
s movement was manifested by the
vote taken at the labor conference
s held here. 1t was 5000 against
- 10000 for.
n Pittsburg. Machinists UnioI
d. is devoting some time to the better
pr ment of conditions in the city. Re
ut Gently it appointed a committee t
+ see that better car service was es
l. tabhshed 1t proposes to interest al
io other organizations in the matter.
- Melbourne, Australia. - Fifty-on
xe years ago the first Eight-Hour Leagu
in Australia was established here, an
parliament has not yet made eigh
s hours a legal days work In this d
SIS rection the unions have done NOR
h. than parliament for wage earners.
OF hington.-Advanced wages an
n shorter hours, in the large majorit
- of cases without resort to strikes, |
Az the report that organizers are sent
ns ing in to the American Federation {
GU Labor. The result of the continue
prosperity of the country has bee
de felt among the workingmen. Their
he is hardly trade that has not receive
ed' an increase. In some places it is tn
H. carpenters, in others the bricklayer
and so on down the line.
lie Racine, visa fight against til
use Of convict labor in the state {
he Wisconsin has been taken up by tn
by Wisconsin State Federation of Labo
he A resolution was passed concernin
he the employment Of convict labor, an
ID advising that the federation use ever
honorable means in fighting them.
also demands that all steps be take
he to prevent the manufacture Of broom
ice by conVicts.
~ Minneapolis.-A gigantic movemer
me to establish nine-hour weekly fc
,rs union machinists employed by raj
asst roads throughout the northwes
RS. which is expected TO include blacl
ng smiths and boiler-makers and en-
ms brace a total of 10000 men, has bee
hg launched. The plan is being backe
principally by the Northwest Consol
Iaa dated District of the Maohinist
Union, although the blacksmiths an
S. boiler-makers, who also have powerfl
ron organizations, are looked TO for actiI
of cooperation on behalf OF their respe
the tive crafts. The Northwest Consol
ltil dated District embraces all railroad
ule north Of the Union Pacific lines ar
rea west of Chicago. A demand will
@ made upon. them to make the min
hour day effective September ].
Hamburg, Germany.-The 'Patric
ic Association Of Labor Unions" hi
been formed here as means Of o
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