The wageworker., 1907-08-16

Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators
and Paperhangers of America have de-
feated the proposition to elect national
officers at the annual convention, in
stead of by referendum. The Buffalo
members were against the proposition
Lowell, Mass.-This year Lowell
broke all records for August vacations.
For the first time in the city's history,
the big mills, with one exception,
closed their gates during period of
great business activity, and about 49,
900 operatives enjoyed a vacation of
ten days. The clatter of the loom
ceased on August %, and will not be
heard again until the Tuesday after
Labor day. The Lawrence Manufac-
turing company, operating the worlds
largest hosiery, will not shut down.
La Crosse, visa pastors union,
composed of all the Protestant clergy
men of this city, is affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor Mem
bers of the other trades look upon the
preachers as brother workers, admit
their delegate to the meetings of the
Trades and Labor council and have
representative of that body at the
meeting of the clergymen. On last
Labor day the preachers marched with
the printers, the cigarmakers, the
bricklayers and other unions in the
Labor day parade, while at recent
meeting of the pastors they were ad-
dressed by delegate from the boot
and shoe makers union in advocacy
of insisting on the union label when
making purchases of shoes.
Helena, Mont.-The Rocky Mountain
Bell Telephone company has filed suit
in the federal court against the Mon
tana Federation of Labor, the Livings-
ton Trade and Labor council, Te1e-
phone Operators union No. AZ, Alex
ander Fairgrieves, H. o. Smith, l.. w.
Thorpe, Almodose Grenier and Effie
LIE Fevre to obtain an order restrain
ing the respondents from interfering
with or molesting in any way the bus
mess of the company, and to shut of
the boycott which the complainant al
leges has been in force since March
IA, last. The trouble is the outgrowth
of the strike of the linemen in Utah,
Idaho, Wyoming and Montana, the
Montana federation having ordered
the Rocky Mountain company declared
unfair in all Montana cities and or
dered out all switchboard operators.
Chicago.-Following is list of
dates of International conventions and
places of meeting to the close of the
year: August 81, Cincinnati O., metal
polishers; September 2, st. Louis, ma
chinists; September 2, indianapolis,
post Office clerks; September 8, Eu-
reka, CAL, woodsmen and sawmill
workers; September 9, Indianapolis,
brick, tile and terra Gotta workers;
| September 2, Boston, cottonm;ll spin
ners; September 10, Memphis, Tenn,
cement workers; September 16, New
| Orleans, bridge and structural iron
workers; September 16, New York
city. wood carvers; September 27,
| Waldon, N. Y, pocket knife blade
| grinders and finishers; October 3, Chi
cago, wood, wire and metal lathers;
October 6, Milwaukee, blacksmiths
and helpers; October z, Chicago, photo
| engravers' union; October 8, New Or
| leans, street and electric railway en-
| ployes; October T. Bay City, Mich,
shipwrights, joiners and calkers; Oc-
tober Is, Rochester, N. Y, interna-
tional car workers association; Octo-
Der Is, Providence, R. l., united textile
workers; November IL, Norfolk, Va,
American federation of labor; Decem-
| ber 2, Chicago, bill posters and billers;
December 2, Chicago, seamen's union.
| San Francisco-The laundry work
ers have all returned to their respec-
| tive posts and the statement is made
that for three years all will be quiet
in the laundries of San Francisco.
Boston.-The building mechanics of
the Boston & Maine railroad have re-
ceived wage increase. The commit
tee which conferred with General SUI
| perintendent Lee and the trades repre-
| sented are: John L. DOrney for the
plumbers and steamfitters, general
chairman; Frank H. Barrett for the
carpenters, Timothy Johnson for the
roofers, A. Leighton for the painters,
Justin Belleview for the gatemen. Al
win Stark for the tinsmiths and Charles
Ford for the masons and bricklayers.
| New York.-In an editorial in the
| Engineering News concerning wealth
and wage earners, protests against the
unequal distribution of the former and
the oppression of the latter are an
swered with this statement: "Capi-
tai is now receiving about 81, where
labor is receiving So, or to put it in
another way, if the annual product of
the country (the money earned by cap
ital and labor, is divided into four
equal heaps capital is getting one of
these heaps and labor the other three"
London, England-The total men,
bership of the Women's Trade Union
league in Great Britain is in excess of
$4,000.
Atlanta, Ga.-The Farmers union,
of Georgia, with a membership of 30,-
900, has gone on record as being bit
| terly opposed to bringing foreign i'm