The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-01-25

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the task His hands prepare:
Honest toll Is holy service, faithful work
is praise and prayer.
Technical World Magazine.
Easton, Pa.--The 600 men employed
in the Lehigh Valley railroad shops In
this city were notified that their
wages had been increased, dating
from the first Of the year. The adj
vance effects all classes of labor, from
the yardmen to the most skilled me
chanie In the shops. The increase is
graduated, ranging from l to 4 cents
an hour.
Calumet, Mich.-Strlking miners at
the Mass Consolidated mine rejected
the company's proposal that they re-
ture to work pending a settlement Of
the wage question, The discontinued
employees consist almost entirely of
Firms. The English and Austrians are
willing to work, but will not do so un-
til the Firms do also. Five hundred
men are idle.
Neutrality-suspicious. Frank s. Han
nah, writing from M%agdeburg, says
that on Noyeuber II was celebrated
the twenty-fifth anniyersar of the
founding of the workmen's Insurance
BY Emperor William l.. This insur-
ance, which is compulsory, Is designed
to assist the laboring classes when
they are incapacitated for work owing
to accident, sickness or old age, and
has grown in the past 25 years to be
one of the largest and most beneficial
systems of insurance eVer devised.
During this period over 1852, 000, 900
has been paid out to SO, 000, 600 people.
The small premiums for this insur-
ance, which are paid by the cancella-
ton of stamps and the accruing per-
sonal benefits, etc, were treated in a
special publication by the bureau of
manufactures entitled Life Insurance
in Foreign Countries"
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Duncan, first
vice president of the A. f. Of L.,
speaking of the labor movement as a
social force, says: This movement
that we are engaged in Is a real tx
emplification of the theory of evolu-
ton, and on that account, If no other,
1t is bound to be one of the most
lasting movements of modern times.
Too often ii is the case that the mis-
takes we make are heralded abroad
as monumental, while the virtues
that are inherent in the cause of or
ganized labor are designedly kept in
the background. 1t is a fact that
is susceptible of proof that our move
ment is not generally understood. 1t
is equally true that as it's purposes are
understood and appreciated people
will see that We stand for the needs
of humanity and the betterment of
the race. The reduction in the hours
of labor means the improvement of
the individual working mar by max
ing 1t possible to afford him greater
leisure for the increase of his mental
and moral welfare, and from an
standpoint the labor movement
justifles itself, 1t is one of the strong
est forces to-day at work for elimina-
ton of financial panics. Through
their increased intelligence, due to
this same leisure to which | allude,
working people have become the best
consumers of the products that by
sale serve to keep up the
flow in the circulation of
money.
Boston.-Two international conven.
ions have already been ordered for
in 1907. The new United
3oilermakers' International will con-
7ene here in April. The mammoth
Brotherhood Of Team
convention will be held in
c. p. Shea, the present In
president, Is a Boston man.
Cleveland, Ohio.-President Com
pers has uncovered the conspiracy
which sought to place the trade unions
a position advocating the subsidy
bill. II has been discovered that a
nan named Smith, whose office is in
he Standard Oh building in this city
paid for the printing and distribution
circulars asking labor organizations
10 pass resolutions favoring the sub
sidy bill. The circulars said that the
Dill was in the interest of labor in
this country. All unions misled into
adopting the resolutions have re-
their action and notified con. /
The Marine Trades council of /,
New York, which was given as the I
OF the resolutions favoring the r
ship subsidy bill, has repudiated them. +
rhe bill provides for the compulsory I
naval service of seamon who work on +
subsidized vessels. :
Eureka, Calm a battle between
lnion and nonunion longshoremen n
me %nonunion mar was killed, one ia. I
ally shot, and one union man probab- '
y fatally shot. =
Washington.--The car OF Russia
las approved the "12-hour act" which 4
really a ten-hour measure for fac. 9
DRY workmen throughout the vast :
The measure establishes 10 !
ours as a days work, Of which two :
ours, however, must be allowed for :
leals. The act applies to all indus \
rial establishments. 1t will be pro- Z
lulsated at once, and becomes effec. II
We about the middle Of January. n
Chicagot-The announcement comes
rom A. F. Of /, Headquarters, that the a
International Printing Pressmen's n
'nion viii make a stand for the gen. 4
Introduction of the eight.hour day a
his year. The present agreement Il
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