The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-05-09


organized labor would rather endure
the Sherman antitrust law, as ap-
piled by the United States supreme
court in the hatters' case, than sub
NIT to registration, as proposed by
the amendatory bill drafted by the
National Civic federation and intro
duced in the house by Mr.. Hepburn OF
Iowa, was one of the features Of a
hearing on that bill before the sub.
committee of the house judiciary com
mittee. President Seth Low of the
National Civic federation and Prof. j.
w. jerks of Cornell university also
made arguments.
indianapolis, Ind.-John Mitchell,
ex-president of the miners Of the coun-
try, is one of five Americans selected
by President Roosevelt TO be special
guests of the big conference OF state
and territory governors to be held in
Washington May 49, This conference
will last three days The sessions will
be held Ia the White House and will
be presided over by President Roose-
welt The five special guests will be-:
Grover Cleveland, ex-president Of the
United States; William Jennings Bry-
an, leader of the opposition political
party; James J. Hill, railroad mag,
nate: Andrew Carnegie, manufactur-
er; John Mitchell. miner.
Los Angeles, Cal-The general fall
ing OF in the building industries the
country over between 1906 and 1907
amounted to Is per cent. In Los An
geles. according to carefully compiled
statistics. the falling on was more
marked, being 26 per cent. Only six
cities of the United States show as
great or greater loss. Twenty-seven
cities show a gain. These are headed
by Tacoma with 22s per cent; Cam
bridge, 81 per cent; Salt Lake City,
Sc per cent; San Antonio, IS per cent. :;
Spokane, Sc per cent; and ST. Joseph,
So per cent.
St Observation-Disclosures Of "a
breweries in St Louis and vicinity and
of the brewery workers unions. signed
new contracts, ending the strike of
$500 brewery workers which has been
on for three weeks. The strikers will
be put to work, under the settlement,
as soon as possible and without dis
elimination, and the men who took
their places during the strike will be
discharged. 1t is planned to reinstate
the strikers within week.
Washington.-A bill introduced in
congress provides for the establish
ment of another department of the
government, the head of which shall
have seat In the presidents cabinet.
The new department is to be known
as the department of labor. and its
head as secretary of labor The head
of the department will be appointive
by the president, the same as other
members of the cabinet, with $4,000
a year as compensation.
San Francisco. - San Francisco
Chapter, No. 2, Royal Arch Masons,
has notified the San Francisco Labor
Council that few of its members are
at this time employing Asiatic help,
and that in the interests of the men,
bers of the organization it has sent
to each member circular letter re-
questing each to discharge any ORR
entails he may have in his employ and
substituting white men.
Milwaukee-John Mitchelrs new
labor paper will have for its object the
promoting of industrial peace be-
tween the miners and operators .
That sounds like John Mitchell-a
true labor leader for the interest of
labor and the general public More
power and long life to him.
Sheboygan, Wis.-Sheboygan's 80
wood working manufactures started
on a new working schedule, which
means a slightly increased number of
working hours for the week, a Satur-
day half holiday and longer dinner
hour. The factories will operate on
a nine-hour schedule starting at seven
a. m. and shutting down at five D. m.
Practically all of the factories have
been working on an eight hour day
schedule since January /.
Pittsburg. Pa.--About 500 additional
men were put to work when the open
hearth furnaces and the shaping and
structural mills of the Homestead
Steel works resumed. Notices were
posted announcing that several de.
partments in the Howard axle works
would resume work.
Waterfowl, Wis.-The reports that
the building trades of this city have
just signed two-year agreement with
the Contractors alliance. thus eff
fectualy doing away with the posi-
bility OF labor troubles for some time.
Livermore Falls, Network in the
Otis paper and pulp mills of the Inter
national Paper company at Chisholm
was almost entirely suspended be-
cause Of strike of the 40 firemen.
Roanoke. va.-Eight hundred men
were discharged from the Roanoke
shops of the Norfolk & Western rail-