The wageworker., 1909-04-10

TIME III tie SiiOtpS oil over oue SYSTEM
of from nine to eight hours day and
five days in the week, not working
Saturday. The order includes the
shops at Denison. Tex, and Sedalia,
Mo-. as we'll as the principal shops
here. and the new schedule will be in
force until June 80. The shops here
have been working nine hours and
seven days week since they re-
opened July 6. 1903. Several men have
been let out of the shops here and all
the night operators on the Kansas
City division have been taken of ex-
cept at Moran. while there are only
five night operators on the Sedalia
division. The company says that the
passenger and freight traffic on the
Katy" system is larger than it ever
has been before and gives as the rea-
SON for the reduction of the working
schedule that cut of $4,000 has
been made in the equipment appropri-
alton.
Boston.-As a demonstration against
the sentences of Imprisonment i'm
posed upon Samuel Gompers, John
Mitchell and Frank Morrison by Judge
Wright in the superior court of the
District of Columbia more than 5000
members of labor unions paraded
through the streets of this city. After
ward large meeting was held in
Fanueil Hall, and several overflow
meetings in the surrounding streets
attracted large crowds. Judge Wright
| was accused of using .-intemperate
and bitter language to representatives
of 1ol, -
that he was not fit person to handle
the case" Copies of the resolution
| were sent to President Taft, Vice-Pres-
ident Sherman and Speaker Cannon.
Paris. France.-At a mass meeting
of 5000 striking government tele-
graph and post Office employees, it was
voted by an overwhelming majority
to resume work Only about 200 of
| the men voted to continue the strike.
| The strike committee telegraphed
broadcast to it's adherents in the prov
| inces the decision of the employees to
| return to work. After parade through
the streets. the men in Paris went to
their posts. Owing to the disorganiza-
ton caused by the strike it was a
week before the telegraph and postal
| services became normal
| Boston-The New England printing
| trades organizations are all sending
! notifications to their senators and
| congressman asking them to sustain
President Roosevelt's veto of the bill
! which would permit of the census
| work being done outside the govern
ment printing Office.
Observation-Disclosures of trades
union affiliated with the Central La
Dor union, do not take kindly to the
so-calied mixed union of bosses and
workmen.
| San Francisco-Since the ad-
iournment of the State Federation
| convention held here last October, %
new unions have been organized and
| IL have reaffiliated with the fedora
ton.
| Cleveland, O-The Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers has let the steel
contract for its new history building
which will cost 100000
Minneapolis, Minn-Tn the state of
| Minnesota there are $50 unions, out
| side of the railroad organizations, and
| 1S5 of these are affiliated with the
State Federation.
| Lawrence, Mass.-A new lodge Of
the Brotherhood of Railroad Clerks
has been established here.
Portland. Ore.-A bill that has been
presented before the Oregon legisla-
ture. providing for the protection and
| safety of persons engaged in work ON
buildings. bridges. ETC., is commented
on editorially in the Bridgemen's
Magazine, the official organ of the In
| ternational Association of Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers. In speaking
of the need of suitable legislation, the
editorial says that owing to the ex-
treme hazard surrounding our employ
ment any protective measure, in the
way of legislation or attempted legis-
lation should receive our hearty and
| unqualified support"
| Washington-The cost of the Ia
bor political committee of the Ameri-
| cancan Federation of Labor during
the campaign of 1908 was: For speak
ers. $6.361; postage, $l.024; printing.
$3.50. and clerk. hire. s504; total,
$S469 The contributions to the CAM
paign fund amounted to 1881.
Philadelphia bill has been intro
duced in the legislature which limits
| the day of a hosting engineer in the
| mines to eight hours
San Francisco.-Moving picture
operators have been organized into a
union as auxiliary to the union of
! theatrical stage employees.
London, Eng.-With a view of con-
solidating the labor movement in the
boot trade, the English National Union
of Boot and Shoe Clickers has recent
ly been taking a ballot of its men,
bers on the question of whether they
should join the National Union of Boot
and Shoe Operators. and the PROPOSE
| ton was carried by 123 to /.
Chicago.-A report from the inter