Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-10-15


June
Victoria. b. C.-There were IS fatal
accidents during the past year in the
mines OF Nansimo. h. c.
Boston.-The International Union
Of Ladies' Garment Workers will hold
a convention here next year.
London.-More than 10O. 600 railway
servants in England are required TO
work from IL to 10 hours per day.
Ottawa. Canada.-Average wages In
Canada have increased % per cent in
five years. according to the census re
port.
Minneapolis. NINA new union.
the Twin City Mattressmakers, was
organized in St Paul and Mime
apolis.
Nancy, Trance.-Eight hundred car
penters and pointers are out on strike
for a ten-hour day and increase of
wages.
Burlington. Vt.-Vermont state
branch. A. +. of L.. was in convention
recently. Great gains in membership
were reported.
Charleston. S. C.-The 60-hour-a
week schedule will be put i'm force in
the cotton mills of South Carolina
January /, 1908.
New York.-The secretary treasurer
OF the retail clerks international re-
ceives on an average from 5000 to 81
500 pieces OF letter mail month.
Limoges, France.-Owing to labor
troubles the two big Haviland porce
lain factories here have been closed
and $4,000 workmen are locked out
Beverly, N. 1.-THE Turner Birk-
head hosiery mills have closed down,
throwing 200 employees out of work
due TO the difficulty OF getting yarn.
Canton. O.-The annual session of
the National Association of Letter
Carriers was held in this city. This
was the sixteenth annual conven-
ton.
New York.-A National Association
OF Carpet Workers of America has
been organized. This will have iuris-
diction OF about 10000 persons en-
ployed In carpet mills.
Copenhagen.-The shipwrights have
struck, an increase of wages having
been refused by the employers. The
answer of the employers association
was TO lock out the organized men.
Evansville, Ind.-Over IT'S iron
molders went on strike here because
OF an order issued at the five stove
foundries preventing the drinking of
beer on the premises during the noon
hour.
London, Eng.-The establishment OF
a minimum wage In New Zealand
doesn't prevert the best workers from
getting a higher rate, according to a
member of the Employers association
there.
Seattle, Wash.-The wages of me
chanics in Yukon territory, per day
of ten hours, is $40; common labor
ers, with board. "a to So; without
board, Sc; draft teams, per day 1.-TWO
horses). $25; clerks, per month, $3.50
to 5000.
Denver.-At q session OF the joint
conference OF representatives of the
IL principal western railroads and
representatives of their employees IT
was practically agreed that a twocent
an hour advance in the wages of yard
men will be conceded by the railroads,
providing the railroad unions agree to
certain conditions regarding overtime
and the right OF the roads to employ
and discharge men for what they con
slider good cause.
New York.-The girl members of
the Shirtmakers' union, in session al
Grand Lyceum hall, Manhattan. car
ried away by enthusiasm for their
cause and having no other available
means to float their strike, Invested
themselves OF brooches, breastpins.
bracelets, watches, lockets, chains.
rings. etc, and authorized the strike
leaders to sell them and add the sum
to their strike fund. The strike is
for recognition of the union by the
Contractors association and is under
consideration by the state board of
arbitration.
London.-The Evening News an.
nounces that the anarchist congress
at Amsterdam was completely mas
tered by the violent American school.
led by Emma Goldman and Boginsky
The congress resulted in the founda
ton OF Red International" which
IL TO be a federation of the anarchists
OF the whole world for a more effcc-
tive struggle against governments
and capital. The new society. accord
Ing to the programme, recognizes ter.
rorism as the only means Of emanci-
Dating the producing classes. Every
workman's duty is TO destroy those
grants who Immediately Cypress him
Brussels.--The Belgian labor depart
ment publishes statistics relating to
strikes that have taken place IN Bel.
gium from 1901 TO 1905 There were
altogether 474 strikes. In which 1i7.
9s7 workers with o.276 womenJ we're
concerned.
Indianapolis Carriage manufactur-
ers Of Ohio, Michigan. Indiana and II
iinois have formed an organization TO
be called the National Association Of
Carriage Manufactures. the purpose
OF which, as stated, Is to control the
Price OF their product An advance Of
ten per cent. to the trade has already
been declared.
RULING SUSTAINED.
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