The log cabin Democrat., 1909-10-21


 nual report of Secretary Edwin Perry, made to Secretary Frank Morrison or the American Federation of LaDor. The report covers the year from Sep tember 1, 1908, to September ], l9o9' and appears in the current issue oi the United Mine Workers Journal. IL shows that the number of charters Is sued to locals since September l, l9US, was 163, and the number of charters surrendered was 167. The number o1 strikes during the year was between thirty and forty, and two-thirds Of all strikes were won. The number of persons involved in the strikes ranged from 300 to 6,000. The cost of strikes during the year is shown to have been $472,1S909. Six local and two general injunctous were issued against mem- bers of the organization during the year.
 ChicagC.-Suit for S25, 900 damages against the w. B. COnkey Company was begun in the superior court by Edward E. Bessette, a member of the Chicago Typographical union. Bes sette alleges that the concern llbeled him in a circular published recently at Hammond, Ind, warning striking bookbinders that if they interfered with the operation of the defendant company's plant they might expect to receive the punishment meted out to Bessette, who was fined and sent to prison" According to Attorney John J. Sonsteby, Bessette was fined on contempt citation eight years ago be- fore Judge Baker in the United States district court at Indianapolis.
 Butte, Mont-As result of juris- diction fight between the Western Federation of Miners and the holsting engineers four-fifths of the mines or the Butte district were closed. ma jority of the members of the engl- neers' union have seeded from the Western Federation of Miners and or ganized a new union. The Butte Miners union ordered its members not to go to work in mines employing members of the new engineer body. Unless the men settle their differences soon all the smelters at Anaconda and Great Falls and in this city will close and more than 15,000 men will be out of employment.
 PittSburg, a.-Representatives of the Glass Bottle Blowers association and the manufacturers reached a wage agreement which with slight notifications is practically the 1908 scale This agreement came after q tour-days' conference. The manuiac- turers opened their plants at once, and most of the 10000 men out of employment in this industry resumed work. At the conference in July the manufacturers demanded large re- duction, but the blowers refused to accept, with the result that all the factories have since been closed.
 Helsingfors, Finland.-ln textile trades two-thirds of the work is done by women: in the paper trade one third of the labor is female. In the sawmills one-tenth of the hands are female Forty per cent. of the bakers are women, and so are p per cent. Of the brewers. Women represent S. per cent. of tobacco factory hands. During the last ten years female la bor in Finland has increased by 20 per cent, partly due to the great sur plus of women, and partly to the emi- grafton of men.
 New York.-The International Typo graphical union was organized in 1850; the matters, finishers, stonecutters and tackmakers' unions, 1854; iron mold CTS. 1859: Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, 1863; cigar makers. 1864; bricklayers and masons, 1865; railway conductors, 1868; locomotive firemen. 1873 hOrseshoers, 1875; iron and steel workers, 1876; window glass blowers, 1877; granite cutters, 1887, and rail way trainmen. 1883.
 Hammond Ind.-The POO bindery girls employed by the w. B. Conkey Company, who agreed to strike in sympathy with the men who walked out for eight-hour shifts and the same wages as paid in Chicago, were dis suaded from their course by the men themselves. who said that no good could come of a walk-out. Seventy one of the men sued the company for pay alleged to have been due before the strike started.
 Chicago.-John l.. Sullivan of the Sullivan Boiler and Tank works asked the superior court for an injunction restraining labor officials, who recent. ly called a strike at his plant, from interfering with his business Several of the Sullivan employees were not union men and a strike was called September 16. Sullivan charged Do heny attempted to intimidate the workmen who remained loyal to the company.
 New York.-The Retail Clerks In ternational Protective association has decided to put on an extra assessment on the members for the purpose of creating defense fund The growth of the clerks association has been phenomenal referendum vote will soon be taken to elect a national secre tary to occupy the chair recently va cated by the death of Max Morris.