The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-07-03
OUR WEEKLY COLUMN
OF INDUSTRIAL, NEWS
Contributed by tho Labor World spe-
ciaI correspondents at All Points
Of tho Compass.

Pants Makers union Of Greater
New York has now union recognition
and 20 per cent increase for it's
1000 members.
Newspaper solicitors at San Fran
SIS a week.
San Francisco, CAL, labor council
is considering plan to send the un-
employed in that city to work on
farms.
Though the influence of the miners
union, the eight-hour state; law was
secured for the men in mines, mills
and smelters in Wyoming.
Seattle, WASH, builders exchange
has voted to abandon the "open shop"
policy.
In the wooden mills Of this country
80, 402 men and 27,169 women are en-
ployed. =.
On July Z, at milwaukee,, Wis, Glass
Bottle Blowers Association will con-
vene.
st. Paul Typographical Union has
decided to affiliate with the child la
Dor committee of Minnesota.
Preliminary steps have been taken
Of union printers in Minnesota.
The, Women's Trade Union League
| wtl hold a national convention in Chi
cago in September. =
The Order Of Railway Conductors at
it's recent convention in Boston, Mass,
chose Jacksonville, Fla, as the place
for the next biennial convention.
Twelve thousand men employed by
the Cambria (Pa.) Steel Company had
their wages advanced on July 1. -.
Steam laundry workers of Aberdeen,
Wash, have offered a. reward Of $3.50
! for the arrest Of Albert Meyer, one of
their officers, who absconded with the
funds Of the union.
| Unions affiliated with the Fedora
ton of Labor paid $1,257,244 in death
benefits last year, and $5o3,541 in sick
benefits, $206,254 in unemployed bene-
fits and $2,540,750 in strike benefits.
! Elizabeth Chesser, who has been in
vestigating the conditions of woman
prisoners in England, says that skilled
workers are seldom found among
them.
Reconciliation betwene the Interna7
tional Transfers and the United
Transfers unions has at last been
successful: The two unions will from
now on cooperate and be known as
the Brotherhood Of Teamsters.
Refusing to accept a compromise tt
go into effect next January /, the
union carpenters Of Marlboro, Mass.
have struck tor an increase of wages
from 37h cents an hour to II cents
and a Saturday half-holiday during
the summer months. y.
Ladies' auxiliaries so far organized
in New York city comprise those 0,
the bakers, boot and shoe workers, ci-
garmakers garment workers, matters
photographers, machinists, piano ant
organ workers, stationary engineers
stereotypers, textile workers and typo
graphical unions. ~ ..,5.',. =.
: Daniel J. Keefe,, Of Detroit, commits
sioner Of immigration, has been elect
ed a delegate to the international con
vention in July by the Chicago Vesse
Unloaders' Union, Of which he Is :,
member, but other locals around tn
lakes are determined to unseat hin
as a delegate, declaring that he /
( seeking to manipulate the affairs Q
the union for political purposes. Z j
: Frank Morrison, secretary Of tn
! American Federation: OF Labor, say
= that! at present there are 100000 per
t sons throughout the country out .
, employment. Mr. Morrison declare
: this to- be a conservative estimate
I and he said this statement was til
: consensus Of most careful estimat
made by men who are thoroughly "a
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