The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-04-06

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pairing Of reaching an amicable under
standing on any other basis, the com.
mittee representing the engineers.
conductors, brakemen, firemen and
switchmen on the Chicago Great West
ern have asked Chairman Knapp of
the interstate commerce commission
and Charles P. Neil, commissioner of
labor, to intervene, under the Erd nan
act, which provides for the arbitration
of difficulties arising between the off,
Gals and employees Of railroads which
threaten to interfere with interstate
commerce.
Fall River, Mass.-Notices were
posted at the Fall River Iron works
and the American Print company in
this city that these plants would be
closed one week, and that until four
weeks curtailment had been complet-
ed they would be in operation on al
ternate weeks only The American
Print company is the largest producer
OF printed fabrics in the United
States. and employs about $50 hands.
The Iron Works company operates
seven large cotton mills, which feed
the print works. 1t employs 5000
hands and has a weekly pay roll of
approximately $4,000.
Internationally the most
important gathering in the history of
labor in this country, as far as future
results are concerned. was that at
Washington of President Gompers
and the A. F. of L. executive board
with the international officers of the
nearly 200 international labor unions
OF the country. 1t was to consider
action to remedy the situation labor
is in because of the recent decisions
OF the United States supreme court
and to consider political action, If nee
essary, to secure to labor what it con-
siders its just rights.
Pittsf1eld, Mass.-A reduction in
working hours went into effect in the
two largest manufacturing plants in
this city. At the plant of the Stanley
General Incandescent Electric COM
pany, employing 1900 men, about ten
per cent. of the employees will con-
tinue to work on full time, while in
certain departments the men will
work only 3h days a week and in
other departments Az days. At the
mills Of the Eaton. Crane & Pike Pa
per company the LOO operatives went
on schedule of 80 hours week.
New York.-In a canvass of the
country to ascertain the number of
unemployed men dispatches have been
received from many industrial centers
with reports of conditions, and from
these it is estimated that more than
one million men are minus jobs. The
reports indicate more than 100000 I'M
employed in the chief cities and near
ly 100000 in the states outside the
cities
Providence, R. Robert Knight.
head Of the B. B. & r. Knight COM
pany, announced that general reduc-
ton in wages amounting to ten per
cent. will be made in the Knight mill.
The company employs 5000 opera
tives. A ten per cent reduction will
also be made at the mills of the Cod
oard Bros and the Manville company's
Globe, Social and Nourse mills.
New Bedford Mass.-Notices of a
wage reduction averaging ten per cent.
were posted in all the cotton cloth
mills in the city. The yarn mills
which are outside the New Bedford
Cotton Manufacturers association
will, 1t is understood, take similar &C.
tion About $4,000 operatives will be
affected. $1,000 in the cloth mills ana
5000 in the yarn mills.
Springfield, Mass.-A wholesale
exodus of Polanders to Europe fol-
lowed the ten per cent. reduction In
wages in the Chicopee and Holyoke
cotton mills. Seventy-five per cent. Of
the 1000 operatives affected are Po-
fish.
San Francisco-The Alaska Fisher.
mems Protective union decided to
fight against the proposed 20 per cent
cut in wages. Unless the packers sub
NIT to their demand 5000 salmon fish
ers in Alaska will be called out.
Boston.-Mayor Hibbard declared
that he is and always was in favor Of
labor unions at big mass meeting of
the railroad clerks Of New England
But first of all, he said, he wanted q
man to be an American.
st. Louis, Mo.-The supreme court
affirmed the sentence of Clarence o.
Skinner, treasurer of the billposters'
union, Of two years in the penitentiary
upon conviction of having embezzled
$500 of the unions funds.
Cleveland, O.-The wage scale for
tugmen upon the great lakes for the
next two years has been agreed upon.
The rate Of the last two years will be
maintained. The contract will go into
effect on May 1.
Indianapolis, Ind-John Mitchell,
the famous leader of the coal miners.
delivered his valedictory to the mems
representatives at the special con-
vention at Indianapolis, and perma-
nently retires from the presidency of
the union, which, with its nearly
100000 members. is the largest trades
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