Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-12-04
NOTES FROM THE LABOR WORLD

NOTES FROM THE LABOR WORLD
The International Bro herhood OF
Maintenance Of Wages employees
will hold it's seventh biennial con-
vention in New Orleans next Mon
day
The next biennial session of the
grand division of the Order of Rail-
way Conductors of America will be
held in Boston in May next year.
In Austria and France the provis-
ion of rescue appara us in mines is
made compulsory. In Germany it
is optional, but has been voluntari-
ly adopted.
Farm laborers in the South, paid
by the month or year, end fed and
supported by the land owner, receive
35 and 40 cents a day during the
working season.
Spinners and cardroom workers in
Manches .er, England, have adjusted
their differences with the manufac-
turers, agreeing, temporarily, to ac-
cept a five per cent reduction.
The last available statistics show
that in one year in Germany the
sum of about $3O,0O0,OOO was paid
to invalid workmen to the number
of 1000, in the form Of old age
pensions
The Bakers union of Memphis,
Tenn, has started label campaign
which, the members hope, will pro.
duce good results. The idea is to-
place value upon bread labels and
thus encourage their use.
The Luxembourg government is
treating incouragible vagabonds to
bread and water for the first four
days of their Imprisonment. and to
the lowest score or ordinary diet |
twice a week afterwards. The pris-
sons are said to be emptying fast.
What is said to have been the first |
time In the history of Westmoreland,
Pa. coal regions, religious services
were conducted underground one
day recently. The miners listened
eagerly to the prayers and Joined
III the chourses of the revival
hymns.
In both England and Scotland sew
eral rescue stations have been estab-
lished in connection with experi-
mental galleries devised for the pur-
pose of training GOLFERS in the meth
DDS of effective rescue work IN the
exent of explosions, pit fires and
other undergo ound accidents.
The annual conference OF the
Miners Federation Of Great Britain
reported that the number of men en-
ployed in the districts represented
by tn federation was 767,S0O, and
the number of men in the union
592,444. There was an increase in
the number of employed compared
with last year of $4,000.
James Tansey, president Of the
Fall River, Mass, textile council,
has notified the union workers that
under the wage agreement between
the Manufacturers association and
the council there will be a further
reduction in wages in the cotton
mills next month of about per cent.
The Fall River mills employ 10000
operatives.
The most recent return for the
Prussian- Hessian railways shows
that In the locomotive service OF 81
156 men, 1917 per cent are on the
eight-hour schedule. 31.46 per cent
ON an eight and l0-hour schedule.
1855 per cent on 1O-hour to a.
hour schedule, 19.41 per cent on IL
to 14-hour schedules. and AZ per
cent on II to Is hour schedules.
Public baths for miners and lock.
ers for their working and street
clothes. 30 that they may cleanse
themselves after their days toll. and
return to their homes looking like
Office employees II they are 80 minded.
is an ideal to be established at the
new works of the Pittsburg- Buffalo
company at Mariana, near Monon-
gahela City. Pa.
Highest cash price paid for clean
cotton rags at the Teller once.