The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-05-19

n Panama and those employed In IN
z navy yards of the United States. ha
been made to President Roosevelt b
II James l.. Gernon, of Brooklyn, vic
+ president OF the Pattern Makers Les
$ que of North America.
/ The entire working force OF all TN
big packing houses in South Omaha
Neb,. comprising about 5000 men
|, have been notified of an advance II
wages of from 5 per cent To Is pc
cent.
The sliding scale proposition, pro
yiding for wage advance OF about
10 per cent, has been accepted by the
unions representing the 10000 textile
workers in the FAN River mills. The
Increase will go into effect May n.
A general conference between rep
Iresentatives Of the Stove Founders
National Defense Association and the
Stove Mounters and Steel Range
Workers International Union will be
I held in Chicago, May Is.
The ninth annual convention of the
Illinois State Association OF the Ma
tional Association OF Letter Carriers
will be held at Quincy. May r. The
ninth ANIMAL convention Of the New
Jersey association will be held at
Montclair. May 30.
Secretary Morrison of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor reports that
for the five months since the clos OF
the federalion's fiscal year an increase
Is shown of more than $4,000 mem
hers as compared with the cores
ponding five months of last year.
Thtr will be no international con
yention Of the Bartenders' Interna
tional Union this year The recent
referendum vote was decidedly
against holding a convention, ghqt 1she
1908 gagh#ing. if one Is held, will
lie At futSuU, OHlu.
The Iowa State Federation of La
Dor has Just entered upon most IN
teresting and gigantic work, that Of
compiling, directory giving the
name, Occupation and residence Of
every laboring man in the state.
The General Federation OF Labor OF
France has now assigned June as
the date upon which all organized
workmen Of hat coantry win cease
work and .remain out iHtA 4 gsneE2l
eight houa work day AT c51nchleh, II
After aasatiffilggle of shine years. dn
ration tn printers of Norway have
established minimum wage scale
and secured the eight-hour. Practic-
ally all employees of printing houses
In Norway are now thoroughly organ
lied.
The Eight-Hour League OF America,
the object of which is to bring the
eighthour question into political cam
paigns by Incorporating that principle
in the platforms of parties and candi
dates. is reported making good pro
gress. and will be in fulI working or.
der before the next presidential cam
paign.
There is a movement, on foot in the
labor organizations of Chicago 10 es
tablish thoroughly union hotel in
that city. Il is proposed that the
hotel shall be built by union men
exclusively. that all i's furniture and
appointments shall be union made and
that every person employed ther, In,
from he'll boys 10 manager. shall be-
a member of a labor union.
At conference between the exc
cuiiye council of the American Fed
GRAFTON Of Labor and representatives
of the sew raj railway brotberhoods II
was decided that a .blp should be I'M
PRODUCED in the next congress depriv-
ing federal courts inferior TO the Uni
ed States Supreme court Of the pow
r to declare unc institutional any aci
passed by congress.
EXPLOSION or POPCORN