The log cabin Democrat., 1909-10-26

pressure and the more destructive to health and even life. So the wages are increased with the depth. At 22 pounds pressure the pay will be $50 for q six-hour day. At 40 and 40 pounds pressure the days work will be only 80 minutes long and the pay S4.50
 Hartford City, Ind-The fight be- tween the American Window Glass Company and the Window Glass Cut ters' x Flatteners' association is on in 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 em- ploys that it will pay the same scale of wages that has been agreed upon between the National Window Glass Workers association and the inde- pendent, or hand-operated manufac- turers, and no more. The workers have demanded difrerential of ? 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 ill progress 5 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 nnr ia 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 tle 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
 Evansville, Ind d-Tle loom tixers at 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 128 looms they have been asked to III assure the cloth. but for the same wage scale, $l7o day. They demand . cents a day extra for measuring the cloth.
 Lynn Mass.-Arvid Erlando of Chi cago was elected general organizer at the closing session of the first na- tional convention of the United Shoe Workers of America in this city. The next national convention will be held at St. Louis, Mo, September 610, 1910. The United Shoe Workers of America represent the so-called independent 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 of non-unionists. It is stated officially that 46 per cent of 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 II years old The costs were S29 in each case. Several cases in which the deputy state labor comnis. sioner is complainant are yet to be tried
 ashington.-Timothy Healy of Yonkers, N. Y, who came to Wash ington several years ago and settled the brewery strike of the stationary tiremen in jiffy, has been reelected president of the International Union of Stationary Bremen. He is vet eran of the war with Spain. Two years ago MT Healy was the Demo cratic and Labor nominee for con gress from the Yonkers district. He started into the political campaign with but S5 cents in his possession. He was not elected, but the majority of his opponent was Whittled down to a splinter. He is again being urged to enter the race for congress by lis friends.
 London, Eng-Tour -ifths of the Lancashire mills which spin American cotton are on systematized short time owing to the depressed condition of 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.
 London, Eng.-Iast year there were 309 important disputes betweeen work men and their employers in England, of which more than G5 per cent. vera settled by compromise.
 Detroit, Mich.--The marine engin eers now have Q total membership on the coasts, the lakes and the rivers of the United States Of more than eleven thousand
 New York-State Labor Commis sioler Williams issued a bulletin stat,