Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-25

are now on in New York. Boston. Chi
caso and ST. Louis. and the idea is
spreading.
In response to a letter of protest against
| the Beveridge child labor bill. President
Roosevelt has addressed a letter TO the
Indiana Manufacturers Association i'm
which he places himsen in favor or tue
enactment by Congress of bill regulat-
ing child labor in the District Of Columbia
| and territories.
| The farmers and unionsts in and near
! Memphis. tenn. have decided to estao-
| lish an exchange through which the ne
| ceSsities of life raised by the farmers IN
| the territory surrounded by Memphis can
| be sold direct to the consumer from the
producers at rates mutually advantageous
and without intervention of two or three
| sets OF middlomen.
| President Roosevelt has denied par
! dons i'm the cases of F. d. Lehman, NJ. J.
| Plunkett. Joseph Shannon. William Cults
and y. Edwards, -abers of labor
| union convicted SOL .onths ago of vio-
! iation of an injuncJ.. enjoinng the men
! from interfering with the Rocky Noun
tain Bell Telephone Company at Butte,
| Mont.
| The nine-hour law reducing the en-
| ployment of railroad telegraphers which
went into effect throughout the country
March I. will necessitate the employment
| of thousands of additional telegra pliers
| by the railroads of the country. and 1t is
! hailed in labor circles boon to many
! keymen out of work. some of whom are
unable to regain employment after tine
| telegraph strike of last year.
The Georgia Industrial Association. rep
| resentinE I he cotton mills of the state, has
decided TO make reduction of 10 per cent
| in wages of operatives 1t was also de-
| cided that 4 curtailment of two days a
week or more. where necessary, shall be
! put into effect.
| \ pitched battle between twenty-five
structural iron workers employed at the
| United States Portland cement works and
as many men who attempted 10 take their
places occurred following walk-out OF
| the union men at Florence, Col. Bricks.
clubs and fists were used. and the night
wased tercely for several minutes. until
| the strikebreakers finally took flight over
! the hills.
John / Girard secretary Of the Column
bus ,Oniol organization of United Brewery
! Workers of America. has received word
that the charter OF the national a: sociaiioa
has been restored without restriction un-
der tn" terms which il WAS granted i'll
1857 by the American Federation of La
Dor. his ends a iurisdictional fight over
the firemen and engineers i'll the brew
eGlaS.
Starting a local secret society in Phil
adelphia in 1853 and holding its first gen
eral assembly in ISIS tho knights of La
Dor the earliest society which aimed
to gather all the workers al trades into a
single organization. II had :ha.NO mem
bers i'm 1856. with Terence V. Powderly as
the head.
From Portland Ore. comes the report
that Japanese section hands are now be-
ing paid more wages on the .. r. & y.
railway than the Americans. The wages
OF the latter We're rIIt from 81 10 SID
a day. ana hours of labor increased from,
eight 10 nine. The Japs are paid 81 81
for nine hours. Many of the whites are
quitting their Jobs. dec airing they are
not yet below the Japanese level.