Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-12-26

Galveston, Texas, teamsters recent ly formed a union.
 Post office clerks have chartered a new union at Atlanta, Ga.
 Asbestos workers at Denver, Col, are preparing to organize.
 Musicians at Charleston, $. C., re- gently organized a union,
 In October 241 work people in Can ada were injured, and of these '9 died.
 There are approximately l,2o0, 0,OOO organized railroad men in the United States.
 An estimate of the membership of labor unions in Russia now places the number at 250,000.
 New Mexico ranks second in the United States in it's death rate from accidents in mines. Building trades have the greatest number of strikes. The coal and coke industry comes next.
 A metal trades department of the American Federation of Labor is be- ing formed in Augusta, Ga,
 In the last 16 years the lnterna. tional Union of Iron MoulderS has paid out $1.576,672 for benefits. Marble carvers are among the best paid mechanics in New York city. They receive $5.50 for an eight hour day.
 Leather workers on horse goods expect before 1910 to make general demand for the eight hour day in | the trade.
 decision has been rendered by the supreme court of Georgia which makes it unlawful for men to dc picket duty.
 Trade unionists at Little Rock ! Ark. expect to bring up nunbef oi labor measures at the next sessloh oi the legislature.
 Stationary firemen and stationary engineers at Fort Worth, Tex, have secured an eight hour day and an In crease of 40 cents a day.
 The next biennial session of the grand division of the Order of Rail way Conductors of America will be held in Boston, Mass, in May Of neX' year.
 Cigarmakers at PawtuCket, k. l. recently went out on strike, but upo1 promise of the manufacturers to i'm prove conditions, they returned t( work.
 Farm laborers ill the south paid by the month or year. and fed and sup Dorted by the land owner, receive 5! to 40 cents a day during working season.
 In Austria and France the proVl sion of rescue apparatus in mines + made compulsory. In Germany It + optional, but has been voluntaril! adopted
 An effort will be made at Sal Francisco. Cal, to effect a permanen' organization of all trades and indus tries that have a grievance agalns Asiatics.
 Delegates to the American Fedora tiou of Labor convention at Denver Col, refused to ride in non-union car and took in the city in carriage driven by union drivers.
 As a result of the improvement Il conditions brought about by the Cl garmakers International union tn death rate from tuberculosis ha been reduced 15 per cent.
 Pennsylvania leads in the slate in dustry. with Vermont. Maine, Nir ginia, Maryland, New York, Callfor mia. Arkansas and New Jersey fol lowing in the order named.
 The supreme judicial court o Massachusetts has ruled that trade union may not fine it's members fo declining to go out on strike wheI ordered to do so by the union.
 The last available statistics shoN that in one year in Germany the SUI of about 30,000,000 was paid to in valid workmen to the number C S71, 1,O00, in the form of old age per |, siOns.
 Electricians union, No 12. of Sa Francisco. Cal has in its membershi the tallest and the shortest men i the trade. The former stands fee , inches and the latter 4 feet inches.
 The Bakers union of Memphi Tenn, has started label campaign which the members hope will pro duce good results. The idea is {