The wageworker., 1909-04-24
Corning those Who Do
Work of the World

Mahanoy City. Pa.-All Goubt as to
lockout at the mines was removed
by the announcement that the collier
les of the Philadelphia & Reading
Coal and Iron Company in the Ma
hanoy district will continue opera
! tions after this date until further no
tice. The Mill Creek Coal Company
and the Dodson Company have decid-
ed to pursue a similar policy.
aShington-AS a result of a two
| days convention here union label
department of the American Fedora
ton of Labor was formed to promote
union labels. Officers of the union
label department were elected as fol-
| lows: President. John B. Lennon,
Bloomington. H.; vice-presidents, John
F. Tobin. Boston: T. C. Parsons.
Washington. d. c.; Max Morris, Den
yer; Owen Miller. St. Louis. and John
]. Manning. Troy, n. Y. and secre-
| tary-treasurer. Thomas F. Tracy.
| Boston.
Atlanta, Ga.-The convict lease sys-
| tenn has come to an end in Georgia,
and about 200 felony convicts were
transferred from the private stock
ades throughout the state to the re-
i spective counties in which their
crimes were committed. There are
about 5000 misdemeanor convicts
| throughout the state in jailS and on
county farms. and these men of
stripes will be put to work on the
public roads. The end of the lease
system and the transfer of the felony
convicts from the private stockades
,,,l~ Oh
laborers in the various lumber mills,
| fertilizer plants. brick plants, etc.
| that have employed convict labor.
I Lebanon. Pa--There will be no
| strike here of iron workers who will
| continue at work under the reduced
| wage scale on the basis of from $3.50
| to 1915 ton for puddlers in the To-
| cal mills. James B. Mincher, vice
/ president of the Eastern Division,
| Amalgamated Steel and Tin Workers,
| in charge of the strike at Reading.
| addressed meeting of local iron
workers. urging them to better condi-
tions by the adoption of a sliding
| scale of wages More than a thou
sand men will be affected by the re-
| duction at the American, Lebanon
Valley and West End Iron plants.
Plainfield. Conn.-Discarding the ad
vice of H. E. Hibbard. secretary of the
| National Textile union, to return to
work. and an intimation by him that
| the national body would not support
| the strike. the 300 textile workers who
struck at the Lawton Cotton mill be-
1 cause of a dispute between the mill
! authorities and some of their number
over cleaning their machines, voted at
! a mass meeting not to return to work,
| but to fight the issue to the end. Mr..
! Hibbard had advised them to return to
work and to let the dispute be taken
up with the mill authorities by a COM
| mittee.
| Monaco, Pa-One hundred and
| twenty employees in the Phoenix Glass
Company's local plant struck and as
| result the entire plant has closed
indefinitely and 400 persons are idle
/ The strike is due to a difference re-
| garding the price lists for blowing
/ chimney ware. The Phoenix Com
/ pany is paying according to the con-
I ference agreement but there is dis
pute as to what the agreement really
means.
San Francisco, Cal.-The Journey
men Stone Cutters union has under
consideration proposition to estab-
lish sick benefit fund.
London, Eng-In Great Britain there
are nearly 100000 trade unionists.
New York-A settlement of the
| long-standing differences between the
soft coal operators of the Pittsburg
district and those of West Virginia
was discussed at a meeting of soft
coal interests here. The claim has
been made by the Pittsburg interests
that they were being Disseminated
against in the matter of freight differ
entails 1t is believed the railroad
companies are inclined to make conces-
sions
Lebanon. Pa-The Lackawanna Iron
and Steel Company posted notices
which announced a readjustment Of
| wages The reductions correspond to
those at other plants. The Semet
Solvay Company also announced a re-
duction of ten per cent at the coke
plants. The Cornwall ore banks at
Miners Village posted notices of a ten
per cent. reduction
| Worcester, Mass-Worcester labor
! unioHS nave TdlSeu $2,VUV W SUSTAIN
i the family of Frank McGee, the union
iron molder official of that city, who
has been sentenced in Connecticut to
one years Imprisonment in Jail for an
alleged violation of an Injunction
Atlanta. Ga.-The Order of Railroad
| Telegraphers will hold its annual con-
! vention in this city May 10.
Wilkesbarre. PA new plan for
dealing with the mine workers if their
committee fails to sign an agreement
| after the conference is now being con-
sidered by some of the coal operators
and is meeting with much favor. 1t
| is to reduce the wages of all classes
| of workers and at the same time an