The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-06-27

of the building trades council. has gone
to Panama, for the purpose of inves-
tigating labor conditions in the canal
zone.
A resolution providing for the es-
tablishment of a labor paper at San
Juan, Porto Rico, has just been passed
at a convention there of representa-
tives of 10 unions having affliation
with the American Federation of La
Dor.
About 120 representatives of the pot
ting industry of the United States and
Canada will assemble in Atlantic City
early next month for the eighteenth
annual convention of the National
Brotherhood of Operative Potters.
Galveston CTex) baseball players
have organized a labor union. which
will affiliate with the American Fed
Grafton of Labor. The idea Is to create
fund for a ball players home; also a
fund modelled somewhat on the general
plan of the actors fund.
Conditions OF organized labor in
Wyoming compares favorably with
other parts of the country The differ
ent international organizations are
tiers are well organized. but there are
quite number Of unorganized work.
ers at outlying places, whose wages are
very low.
Many unions have IN the last year
been experimenting in the matter OF
dues. In several instances unions
| which have always strictly adhered to
the high due rule have reduced temper
arily their initiation fees in an en-
deavor to decide for themselves just
to what extent high initiation fee
hampers growth
From a report on British trade
unions recently issued, it is shown that
this form of labor organization is
steadily increasing in membership and
strength Returns were received for
1906 from Gas unions, with a member
! ship of LIE. 031, an increase of 151, 512
over the report of the previous year.
Their income for the same period
approximately s13,5O0, 900, an increase
of 100000. Their expenditures aggre-
gated 81, 100000, or s1,10O. 900 less than
the year previous. At the present time
the funds of the unions total about
s29, 600. 900.
Grand President Frank J. McNulty
of the international Brotherhood of
| Electrical workers. urges the creation
of a large defense fund, one so large
as to be useful in cases of differences
| between employers and employees. He
also advocates the centraIizing OF sick
and death benefit funds. He holds that
IL such funds were paid from the treas
ury Of the international body. instead
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better results would obtain, and that
1T would then he possible to raise death
benefits from 800 to $500 and sick and
disability benefits from IS to SO a
week
An experiment is being tried in Paris
looking to the abolition OF the sweat
shop conditions surrounding many OF
the French working people. The ex-
pertinent consists Of the establishment
of workshop apartment building,
where workmen may labor and live
: under the most modern and hygienlo
conditions at a minimum cost. The
building contains forty-eight work
} shops and apartments. and the price a
year for these combinations is from
500 to s14S. In the basement are
baths and on the seventh floor arrange
ments for washing and drying the fam
lily linen. Electric power is supplied
at a minimum cost from a central point.
Any workman using the lights for ma
chinery can install themselves in the
building. In fact, twelve families have
already done so, finding the new. clean
workrooms a most agreeable and
healthful substitute for their former
dark and iI-ventilated shops.
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