Evening star., 1909-07-07

| Davis; conductor, Ben Slime; trustee, c.
H. Adams: auditors, James H. Ryan and
| Thomas WOLF, and warden, William w.
| Adamson. The membership of this union
approxima tes 1000.
The committee of the Building Trades
Mechanics Council is arranging for the
| councils first annual excursion to Mar
shall Hall, August .. Athletics Will be
| the feature of the day.
The Central Labor Union is working in
conjunction with the local union of the
International Alliance of Theatrical Stage
Employees to have the general convention
of the latter organization. which meets
Monday next at Springfield, Ohio, TO
name Washington as the convention city
for 1910. There will be 175 delegates.
representing as many cities in the. United
States and Canada. at Springfield.
An agricultural laborers' union ip Den
mark now has membership of about
1000 in sixty branches. AS there are
about go, ,O0O agricultural laborers In Den
mark the union has not been able to ex-
ercise any great influence on the rate OF
wages and working conditions
In Maine the working hours of women
and children employed in manufacturing
industries have been reduced by legisla-
tive enactment recently from sixty hours
to fifty-eight hours week.
Central Labor Union of Lynn, Mass,
recently decided that 1T was time for the
organization to go into politics, and 1t is
probable that the union will push Wig
orous campaign next fall.
The Kansas City, Mo, hodcarriers'
strike is over At meeting of the Build
ers' Club it was decided to offer the hod-
carriers 3112 cents an hour, compromise
suggested by the state board of arbitra-
ton. The union accepted the offer The
union called the. strike about two weeks
ago when the contractors refused to in
crease the carriers pay from 30 cents an
hour to 40 cents.
The National Federation of Trade
| Unions of Norway has existed since
| April, 1899. when five national unions
| and a few local societies, with total
membership Of 3494, made up the avail
| able force. February 1. 1909 there We're
nineteen central or national unions and
eleven local societies federated, with
total membership of 47,497. Outside the
National Federation there are Still SIX
unions, with 1856 members.
! In the Locomotive Firemen and En-
gnemen's Magazine. the official journal
| of the Brotherhood of Locomotive FIRE
men and Enginemen the matter OF a
| more nearly complete organization OF 10
| comotive men is discussed.
| In Great Britain a child may begin
working in factory or above the ground
at mine when twelve years OF age. but
must attend school regularly half time;
at thirteen years of age he may begin
working full time under. certain reStric-
tions. From fourteen to seventeen years
| of age inclusive, he is a young person In
the eyes of the law
| Frederick Almy, secretary of the Char
ity Organization Society of Buffalo. in
his annual report declared that organized
i tl,n,, nt tinCr
agency 10 raise the standard of living
through higher wages and shorter hours.
The report says:
THE expense of this has compelled
better methods by the employer, ana
better fed and better rested workmen
have also done better work, SO that
there has been enough profit for all on
the higher wage. Social workers have
not allied themselves sufficiently with the
trade unions for these ends.
Better living and working conditions
| through tenement and tuberculosis work,
| through better sanitation and safety ap-
| pliances in factories, through child labor
| laws, Fairgrounds and baths, also help
raise the standard of living; 1t calls for
| a general social reconstruction.
The fight is on toward this end. Pru-
dence requires it, for, as has been said.
the disease Of poverty is communicable in
and Christianity requires it if the brother
hood Of man is to be anything more than
yoke
| San Francisco, Cal, according to the
| Argonaut, has a larger percentage of peo-
pie employed than any of the fourteen
| other largest cities in the United States
| 567 per cent, the nearest to which Is
Boston, with 55.3 per cent. The wage
| earners in San Francisco and Los Angeles
also earn larger annual wage than in
any other cities in the United States-S65l
and $3.50 respectively-exceptins Denver,
| with S694.
| The national employment bureau, New
| York, recently Incorporated, proposes to
| extend its usefulness to other cities-Ch-
cago. Pittsburg, Cleveland, Cincinnati and
| San Francisco The purpose of the bureau
| fee is to be charged the employer or en-
ploye until after the individual is en-
/ gagged and proves satisfactory. Then a
i small fee will be charged, just sufficient
/ to keep the bureau in running condition.
| Chicago Carpenters Union has adopted
a plan whereby all apprentices in the
1 trade are sent to the trades schools in
/ that city for a period of three months in
each year 1t is said this move is doing
much to check the tendency previously
developed in the trade schools by which
4 those who studied were induced to take
! the plac of union carpenters at less than
the prevailing union scale
/ BOYS MYSTERIoUSLY SHOT.