The wageworker., 1909-12-18
GENERAL MENTION.
Brief Bits Of Labor News Briefly
Picked and Piifered.


Picked and PiIfered.
Amalgamated Ladies' Garment
Workers Local 100, in New York city,
has returned to the United Garment
Workers.
About 10000 coke workers in the
COnnellsville, Pa, coke region will re-
ceive an increase of IL per cent the
first Of the year.
The Michigan Central railroad is
making arrangements to install the
telephone system of sending and re-
ceiving train orders.
Pittsburg Plate Glass company in
Kansas City, Kas., has signed up an
agreement with the Glass Cutters
Union for closed shop.
Horseshoers and carriage and
wagon workers in Syracuse, N. Y,
have formed an alliance for offensive
and defensive purposes.
Since the local unions of United
Garment Workers combined in Syra-
cuse, N. Y, the membership has
reached the thousand mark.
During the last seventeen years,
American coal mines have killed 22,-
$40 men, and made at least 10000
widows and more than 10000 orphans.
A voluntary increase of 10 per cent
to 1000 men has been announced by
the Dunbar Furnace company, oper-
ating coke ovens in the Connellsville,
Pa, district.
At a convention Of the Halifax, N.
s., Independent Labor Party, John T.
Joy was nominated to contest that
county at the forthcoming provincial
elections.
Manitoba.-The coal strike around
Edmonton is settled. The men receive
22h cents more car and recognition
of the union. All former non-union
miners are now unionized
A noticeable feature in recent child
labor legislation in this country has
been in the increased emphasis placed
upon the proof of age requirements Of
children who desire to go to work.
Structural workers in Cleveland, O.,
report there is now only one unfair
job in the entire district-the Harvard
Denison bridge, which is being con-
| structed by the McClintock concern.
Fully one-half of the workers en-
ployed in the industries in Pennsyl-
vania are foreigners, and in the coal
mines of the state the foreigners out
number the Americans two to one.
Sheet Metal Workers Union in
Cleveland, O., report since March /
the gain in membership has been 33
per cent and the gain in loyalty and
enthusiasm cannot be measured in fig
ures.
AS early as 1929 a workingmen's
ticket was put in the field at the state
elections in New York. It is his
torical fact that one of the candidates,
Ebenezer Ford, of New York, was in
that year elected to the legislature.
The strike of the press feeders at
San Francisco has been settled. After
signing an agreement with the en-
ployers for three years, the members
went back to work, with an increase
of $1.5O a week for both cylinder and
platen feeders.
The machinists are asked to stay
away from the PittsbuTg Locomotive
Works, at Pittsburg, Pa; also stay
away from the Empire Motor Car com
pany at Indianapolis, Ind, for there
is strike on at both places.
Brotherhood Of Painters, Decorators
and Paperhangers in Chicago have
joined the building trades department
of the American Federation OF Labor
Painters unions in that city have I
membership of nearly 7.00Os
Box Makers Union members
stopped work at three Boston shops
. and then secured new agreement
! reducing the hours of work from fifty
;. four to fifty each week, and several
= other betterments. The wage scale
4 was not materially changed.