Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-12-26
NOTES FROM THE FIELD
 OF LABOR

SSss~SssSSsSSsvSSS place q value upon bread labels and thus encourage their use,
 An agreement has been made be- tween the two international unions of railway workers on the basis of lgamatiou, to be Consummated as soon as possible A joint convention will be held for that purpose.
 sixteen locals were represented at a recent meeting to form the propos- ed metal trades section Of the Dos ton, Mass, C. l.. |. Application was made to the A, r. of l., metal trades department for the local charter.
 Mob insurance" is the latest thing in the business world in Eng land. Great numbers of merchants are said to be insuring against the chances of their shops being broken into by crowds of the unemployed.
 The several unions in Sacramento, Cal, engaged in the teaming busi- ness are considering a proposition to form district council of the united brotherhood of teamsters. The indi- cations are that it will be organized.
 The jurisdictional strife between the Freight Handlers union and the Order of Railway Clerks was adjust ed by a joint agreement, each union | giving away on some points and ac- cepting compromise on the mem bership.
 As a result of a meeting of the sheet metal workers of Lowell, Mass, held recently, the employers volun- tarily granted the eight hour work day without reduction in pay from the amount paid for the previous nine hour day.
 The label council of the women's s auxiliaries of Greater New York has for its purpose the inaugurating of a systematic movement by the trades unions to make the union label neces- sary to employers as means of sell ing their goods.
 The first local union of electrotype foundrymen has been organized in | Brooklyn, N. Y., to be known as Lo- cal union, No 1O0 A charter was issued to it very recently by the Electrotypers' and Stereotypers' h. ternational union.
 Declaring the boycott to be un- wise and of general menace to the public the general assembly of the Knights of Labor at Washington re- cenly went on record as opposing flatly the programme of the American Federation of Labor.
 The Cigarmakers' International Union of America will not hold a con. vention this year. An amendment to the constitution designed to make a convention possible has been de feated in the referendum by the mar row majority of 306.
 The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers has decided to invest about $1 100000 of it's permanent benefit funds in a big twelve storied building in Cleveland, O., small part oi which will be occupied as the nation al headquarters office.
 i In and about quarries of the United Kingdom S7,S14 persons were employed during 1907. Of this tota 55,S94 persons worked inside the ac tual pits, holes or excavations, while ,920 were employed at factories and workshops outside.
 The strike for the eight hour da, throughout the trade was inaugur ated by the Brotherhood of Book binders on October 1, 1907, and i has been successful to the extent 0 S5 per cent, $50 members still ol strike to make the effort entirely sue cessful.
 An agreement was made at the A F. of L. convention between the war ing factions of the Internationa Brotherhood of Electrical workers who will hold a joint convention
 January IS, 1909, and elect nev / officers and start their work agail l as unit
 = In both England and Scotland sey I eral rescue stations have been organ - ized in connection with experiments
 galleries devised for the purpose o l training colliers in the methods 0 } effective rescue work in the event 0 l explosions, pit fires and other unde. t ground accidents.
 The Western Federation of Mir
 CTS has started an appeal for fund
 to erect a monument to the memOr
 of the late George A. Pettibone. on = of the figures in the famous Idah
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