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The American section Of the boot and
Shoe workers internationa body now has
more than 100000 in its emergency fund.
There IL a movement under WI to or.
ganize a building trade section OF the
American Federation of Labor in Fargo,
y. ID.
The 100 bridge and sirder workers On
strike at Wolserhammon. Eng. recently
resolved not to return to work on the
terms offered.
The International Brotherhood Of
Painters and Decorators Of America has
increased lis membership more than d,O0o
since April j.
San Francisco carpenters will exert
strong efforts To obtain the convention OF
the United brotherhood of Carpenters
and Joiners IN 1910.
According TO a recent report Of the As
sociated Blacksmiths' Society of Great
Britain, the surplus funds Of the organ
lzation amounted to over Si1O.UU.
Belfas. CIreland) employers have Civ
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week in the wages of iron molders. 1t is
rumored that the men will resist the re-
duetion.
Under the revised law governing the
employment of women and children in
italy, night work Is forbidden for all fe
males and for males of less than fifteen
full years.
There is n movement to organize all
the unskilled workingmen Of Montreal.
Canada, into a big federation along the
lines of the Knights Of Labor which ex-
isted in that city about twenty years ago.
The railway trackmen are planning for
the establishment of a home for their
aged and INDECENT members. 1t is pro-
posed to acquire a tract of 500 acres near
Fort Scott, Kan. as the location for the
institution.
Swansea carpenters and joiners have
made a demand for an advance In wages
of a penny per hour. As concfiiation
boards now rule the rates of wages in the
British building trades, the matter will
doubtless be settled by Cancellation or ar
bitration.
The officials Of the International
Brass Molders' Union, which was organ
lied in October, 1904, report that their
membership has now reached 10000 in
this country. The union has established
a sick benefit fund and also q death and
burial fund.
Sacramento, Cal, wishes to have a la
har tannlo anJ has aant 70 oorb ,tninp
n copy of the plan TO raise funds to erect
the structure. 1t is proposed that each
member of a union shall buy SIS worth Of
stock and pay it in sixty monthly in
stallments of % cents.
In Denmark several stoppages of work
have taken effect. Owing TO the litho-
graphic workers insisting on eight hours,
which the employers did not see their way
clear to comply with, they e out, to
which the employers responded by lock
ing out the men within the printing Tex
cept the daily press). and the paper in
dnstries and bookbinding, The men In
their turn striking at all the daily papers
in the country. except the socialistic.
The Frick Coke Company of Pittsburs
having decided 10 start up at once 10 per
cent Of all its ovens, and requiring 5000
men for that pnrpose, has sent word to
the cokeworkers who returned to Hun
gary last fall that they are To- wanted.
The Frick people claim that their efforts
to man the ovens with home labor have
proved fruitless. Nevertheless, labor
leaders say that they will force the con-
tract labor law into action to prevent the
unemployment OF the men from Hungary.
Socialists and members OF labor unions
thorough the country are taking up
the case OF Jan Pouren. a Russian revo-
'~utionist who recently was arrested In
Philadelphia on the demand Of agents OF
he car that he might be extradited and
tried in Russia for high treason. Petit
lions are in circulation pointing ont that
| Poureu, being a political refugee. should
not be sent back. aud urging the federal
authorities to release him. Delegates
from various labor bodies are to present
the petitions to the president.
President Lewis Of the United Mine
Workers signed an order calling on the
strike in the coal district OF Birmingham.
Ala, Thursday. the chief reason given be-
Ing that Gov. Conner had prohibited the
! use Of tents 10 house the striking miners
This and other severe measures employed
by the authorities had discouraged the
| strikers. The owners said that most OF
the 1900 men would be taken hack on
the open shop basis. The 500 militia on
duty for the two months during which
the strike existed were sent hoine.
At Dnnmore. Pa. near Scranton. when
the managers OF the Mountain shaft oil
the Pennsylvania Coal Company were
taking to WORK COO strike breakers TO take
the places Of men and boys who had gone
| ont as 4 protest against the discharge Of a
breaker boy, and because OF excessive
docking, = fight took place between the
strikers and the state troops, who had
been called to protect the property Of the
| company. Several volleys were fred be-
fore the angry workmen would dispense
and two women, one carrying . baby
were mortally wounded.
labor unions were almost unknown ia
| Newfoundland np to 1902. Then the
! only organization for the protection oil
the employed was the Typographical
| Union. Since then. and especially of re-
| cent years, unions and societies have
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