The wageworker., 1909-09-25

are increased with the depth. At %
pounds pressure the pay will be $3.50
for a six-hour day. At 40 and As
pounds pressure the days work will
be only 80 minutes long and the pay
$3.50.
Hartford City. Ind.-The fight be-
tween the American Window Glass
Company and the Window Glass Cut
ters' & Flatteners' association is on in
earnest. Both sides are confident of
winning and no one can predict at
this time which side will be success
full. The company has informed the
only two skilled trades it now en-
ploys that it will pay the same scale
of wages that has been agreed upon
between the National Window Glass
Workers association and the indie
pendent, or hand-operated manufac-
turers, and no more. The workers
have demanded a differential of II per
cent. more than this scale and 20 per
cent. more than has been paid the last
year.
| Pittsburg, Pa.-The McKees Rocks
| strike. which has been in progress SO
days at the Pressed Steel Car Com
pany, is over. The workmen, number
ing over 5000, have won. Practically
all the demands made by the men
| have been granted. One point, that
| of an increase in wages, has been
! compromised. The company is said
| to have promised to pay the 1907 rate
of wages as soon as present contracts
are filled
ST. Paul. Minn.-It is the intention
of the officers of the Minnesota State
Federation of Labor to make every eff
fort to bring about peaceful settle
ments of all labor disputes where such
a thing is possible Whenever any
| controversy comes up. these officials
will at once proceed to the seat of
war and will use every honorable
means so to arrange matters that a
| settlement may be arrived at by con-
! ference, or arbitration should this
means fail.
the Evansville cotton mills are on
| strike The men say they have been
| subjected to what is practically re-
duction in wages They say that in
addition to tending the 12S looms they
have been asked to measure the cloth,
but for the same wage scale, S1-75 a
day. They demand 25 cents a day
extra for measuring the cloth.
Lynn, Mass.-Arvid Orlando of Chi
| cago was elected general organizer
at the closing session of the first ma
| tional convention of the United Shoe
! Workers of America in this city. The
next national convention will be held
at St Louis, Mo-, September 6-1O, 1910.
| The United Shoe Workers of America
represent the so-called Independent
shoemakers of the country.
Norfolk, Va.-Machinists and black
smiths at the Seaboard Air Line rail-
| ways general shops at Portsmouth
have struck because of the alleged
employment of non-unionists. 1t Is
stated officially that 46 per cent o1
the machinists and all but six black
smiths have gone out
st. Joseph, Mo.-John A. Crawford
local manager, and Frank Hutton
night manager of the Western Union
Telegraph Company here, pleaded
guilty and were fined ten dollars and
costs on two charges of violating the
child labor act by employing boys
under Ia years old The costs were
$29 in each case. Several cases in
which the deputy state labor commits
sioner is complainant are yet to be
tried.
Washington.-Timot Healy o1
Yonkers, n. T., who came to Wash
ington several years ago and settled
the brewery strike of the stationary
firemen in a jiffy, has been reelected
president of the International Union
of Stationary Ffremen. He is a vet
eran of the war with Spain Two
years ago Mr. Healy was the Demo
cratic and Labor nominee for con
gress from the Yonkers district He
started into the political campaign
with but IS cents in his possession
He was not elected, but the majority
of his opponent was whitfield down
to a splinter. He is again being
urged to enter the race for congress
by his friends.
II London, Eng.-Four-fifths of the
Lancashire mills which spin American
cotton are on systematized short time
owing to the depressed condition oi
i, trade in cotton goods abroad. The
. president of the Master Cotton Spin
ners' Federation says that the pres
ent crisis is one of the worst the
trade has ever experienced
Il London, Eng.-Last year there were
500 important disputes between work
men and their employers in England
of which more than 65 per cent were
settled by compromise.
Detroit, Mich.-The marine engin
GERS now have a total membership OF
the coasts, the lakes and the rivers ol
the United States of more than clever
thousand.
New York@State Labor Commis
sioner Williams issued a bulletin stat
ing that only zig per cent of the
!; $50, 900 organized laborers of that state