The Green Forest tribune., 1907-02-22

1 important to the men is the install2- | ton of the uniform workday. In all | plants, excepting the packing trades
 and the steel mills, nine hours is the l recognized workday.
 1 Boston.-Bartender of this city are 1 wrOthy over a new ordinance reQuir 1 ing them to secure a license and regis 1 ter at police headquarters. Their de- scription is kept by the Bertillon sys- | tenn. The bartenders are considering i how they can fight the ordinance.
 They say that to obey the law makes i it appear that they are criminals. II l is one case, they admit, where a strike would be no avail.
 San Francisco.-Following the re- cent sailors strike on the Pacific coast l comes a disagreement between the of l ficers of the vessels which promises i to result in one of the greatest labor troubles in connection with Pacific coast shipping of recent years. This is a strike of all ship officers except the masters. The trouble hinges on the demand of the officers for over. time and an increase in salary of ten dollars month
 Chicago.-William D. Huber has been reelected president of the United | Brotherhood of Carpenters and Join- CTS of America. The organization has 200 GOO members, and every member voter. At least 100000 men, women and children, therefore, rely upon the benefits from higher wages secured by the union. President Huber has been president for several years. He is also vice president of the American Federation of Labor.
 Denver, Col.-The Brotherhood Of Railroad Trainmen and Order of Rail. way Conductors of the Rocky Noun tain division of the Northern Pacific have both decided to demand 8 raise of 15 per cent. in wages and a reduc. tion of the working day to eight hours. It is believed that the same demand will be made ultimately by the brake. men and conductors on all roads op erating in the west.
 Saginaw, Mich-There is an ordi nance of this city which requires city printing to bear the union label of the 1 printers. The contracts for printing l the annual police reports was award 1 ed recently to an unfair shop. The controller would not pay the bill be- i cause the printing did not bear the union label as SaginaW's laws pre-.
 scribe. The city council also refused
 action. The question will be taken to
 the courts for settlement.
 Springfield, O.-Operators on the Big Four system are not satisfied with
 the increase in wages. A few days
 ago it was announced that an average 1 increase of five dollars had been al l lowed. Some of the men receive five dollars month additional and others
 ten dollars. This did not suit the CD.
 orators and & committee started for 1 Indianapolis to confer with General i Manager Van Wrinkle. They represent the order of Railway Photographers.
 Washington.-The Hynes Qa.) local of the Miners union has forwarded to 1 the United States supreme court 1 copy of resolution recently adopted 1 by it declaring contempt for the recent l decision of the court in the case of 1 Mover, Haywood and Pettibone The resolution asserted that the president l has pronounced against the men with out trial They pledge themselves to 1 do all in their power to prevent the | consummation of the murderous con-
 spiracy against our brothers now
 awaiting trial in Idaho"
 Columbus, O.-An advance in wages
 averaging about four per cent is l granted the dremen, trainmen, yard- men and switchmen of the Toledo
 & Ohio Central railway as the result l of an agreement reached at confer ence of the railway officials and rep. resentatives of the employees.
 Sydney, N. S. W.-The Oceanic Steamship company's steamer Sonoma,
 which was to have sailed from hers January 30 with mails for San Fran l cisco, but was prevented from start 1 ing owing to strike of 56 mem bers of her crew, all of whom were sen. fenced to months imprisonment at hard labor succeeded in shipping 8 crew of nonunionists and sailed for the United States.
 New York-Southern cottoh mills are not the only establishments where children work from daylight to dark for mere pittance, according to Mrs. Maud Nathan, president of the Con. sumers league. She declared that there were thousands of children in New York city who worked from 14 to 1 16 hours day for 10 or 12 cents. This seems to emphasize" she said, the necessity of the leagues efforts to crush out the sweatshop evils"
 New York-Seven hundred women and 4,000 men employed in the hat factories of Orange, N. J., are on strike by order of the national ofi. cers. The trouble started when a de- mand was made that the average wage scale be fixed at $20 a week, an advance of two dollars.
 Boston-General President Tobin, of the Boot and Shoe Workers union,
 has, at the request of some of the Brockton (Mass.) unions notified eight of the leading shoe manufacturers
 there that the union stamp agree ments, in effect until March 1, can not | be renewed on the same terms. Washington.-An estimate furnished 1 by a statistician gives tue number of men killed in the daily pursuit of their callings, largely skilled and unskilled laborers, for the last four years, aa | 80,000 men, or 10000 annually.
 Pittsburg, Pa.-The machinists of this district have decided to take c roforopd,,p, yata 1,pop tho od,,ico hI1;+v