Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1908-02-23
NOTES FROM THE LABOR WORLD
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| Activities OF the Brain and Braun o,
Industry Throughout the Country.
In New York City electrical workers
receive $500 day. of eight hours.
There are 1888 BARRIERS and hair
dressers in the United States; 1866.
$50 walters and S3,S75 barkeepers.,
The municipulation of the Adelaide
Australia, tram service has resulted in
shortening the hours of labor, and an
increase in the wages of employees.
In Italy the membership of trade I'M
ions decreased from 240,6S9 in 1902 to
204,271 in 1907.
Union Labor men have planned to
start George r. Gurgan, the labor
Mayor of Lafayette, in the race for the
Democratic nomination for the COVER
nor of Indiana.
Italy Austra-Hungary and Slavic
countries of eastern Europe are at
the present time the principal sources
of the unskilled labor supply of the
United States.
The circuit court of Vigo county, Ind.
has upheld the constitutionality of
the miners washhouse act enacted by
the last Indiana legislature The act
compels mining operators to furnish
and equip with hot and cold water
washhouses for the use of the miners.
The Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners has gained 141 new unions.
and 29,63l more members are now on
the books in good standing than was
the case one year ago. The total
membership in good standing now. is
1879, 1923, which means that the brother
hood has actually more than 100000.
members.
The eleventh annual convention of
the Tennessee Federation of Labor
looking toward obtaining child labor
and other Legislature measures of ben
eft to the workers, and campaign
will be instituted to obtain more
thorough organization of the laboring
people.
Industrial conditions are greatly inn
proved in Bridgeport, Conn, practical
ly all of the large factories have re-
sumed operations, the most of them
in full force, and some which were
running on short time have ar
ranged to increase the number of
working hours each week.
The Vancouver Trades and Labor
Council has decided to try to secure
a supply OF cheap fuel along the lines
followed in Seattle, and has appointed
a committee to inquire into the ques-
ton. In Seattle the unior5 have
bought coal mine, and hope to build
a railway line to it. The saving al
ready amounts to $500 a ton.
Sixteen Britosh trades unions, with !
a membership of three hundred thous-
and, are supporting a movement to es-
tablish a daily newspaper in the inter |
ests of labor. The parliamentary
committee of the Trades Union Con.
gress will manage the venture. The |
capital is 100000
The executive council of the Amer |
lean Federation of Labor has appoint |
ed President Gompers, of the Fedora !
ton; Presiden Huber, of the United |
of Carpenters and Join |
ers, and President Duncan, of the |
Granite Cutters National Union, as a |
to settle the many disputes |
between building trades and unions |
in New York.
Because of numerous instances in |
which wealthy men cast aside their |
wives, PttsburS working men seek to |
have the divorce laws made more |
stringest On behalf of several trades |
lDions, Robert II. Heath, a miner has
his candidacy for the leg
stature on the platform of mo di-
'orce."