Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-30

may attend school and still have a means
of at least supporting themselves without
being compelled to labor in a factory He
does not state what he thinks this per
diem wage should be. but he thinks the
state could well afford to pay a small
sum. and that the reduction in the amount
necessary to pay for the state support of
schools for delinquent children would be
sufficient to pay the bill.
Norway is probably, 1t is said, at present
the most thoroughly strike-ridden country
or the world. Strikes lock-outs and labor
conflicts are innumerable, although some
Of the difficulties have been patched up
tied up the timber interests Of the nation
and the strike spirit is spreading into
other manufacturing lines. The tanners
and the textile workers were the first
pected that workers in several other In.
dustries will join in the national strike
condition.
The government of Canada has intro
duced and passed q measure called the
"intrial disputes investigation act" It Is
a compulsory act up to Il certain point
It's chief feature is the provision that
before strike or lockout can be legally
declared in dispute between employer
and employed. in connection with q mine
or any industry connected with q public
utility, 1t shall be submitted to q board
of Cancellation and Investigated under the
act. with the view Of arriving at q settle
ment. Further provisions require that en-
ployers and employees shall give thirty
days notice of intended changes Affect
Ing the conditions Of employment. respect
ing wages. hours Of labor, etc. and
pending official investigation, the relative
position of the parties shall be unchanged:
neither party is to do anything mean
while to bring about q strike or lockout.
Any award under the act is to be obliga-
tory and binding.
The threatened strike of East st. Louis
street car employees was abandoned by q
vote taken during a meeting of the car
men. They voted to drop the strike plan
and to accept the promise Of Vice Presi-
dent Haynes not to hold the recent strike
agitation against them. The walk-out
was threatened because the company re-
fused to reinstate George Gloss. a dis
charged motorman. He was discharged
because of carelessness resulting in an ac-
cident. The company refused to arbitrate
the matter of his discharge. asserting II
was purely matter of discipline.
A wage agreement has been reached be-
tween representatives Of the Amalga-
mated Association of Iron Steel and Tin
Workers and the American Sheet and Tin
Plate Company at Pittsburg. The new
agreement amounts to per cent re-
duction in the pay Of the tin workers
and cut of per cent in the scale for
the sheet department. About 10000 men
are affected.
Operations have been resumed at the
Rosena furnace at New Castle, Pa. CIV
ing employment to about 300 men. The
furnace Is operated by the Carnegie Steel
Company Other furnaces there will start
soon, 1t is announced. The Shenango Fur
mace Company blew in it's new furnace at
Sharpsville July 6, employing 200 men.
The company Is said to have orders
ahead to keep all of its plants busy until
October.
At Pittsburg the Republic Iron ana
Steel Company has closed its eleven plants
because Of failure to reach an agreement
with the 4 malgamated Association Of
Iron Steel, Sheet and Tin Plate Workers.
and It q proposed 10 operate tie plants
hereafter with non-union labor.
The Cambria company, 1t Is announced,
will resume at many OF its mills at
Pa. on a larger scale than at
any time since the depression began last
October. 1t is said that several thousand
men who have been idle for months viii
b employed.