United labor bulletin. (Denver, Colo.) 19??-1915, 1910-05-19
LABOR NOTES

LABOR NOTES
The upholsterers, carpet men, automo-
bile upholsterers, mattress makers,
shade, curtain and drapery hangers OF
will soon be organized. A To-
cal of that craft will be chartered by the
Upholsters' International A meeting has
been held and the preliminary steps are
now being taken.
Because the musicians. costumers, bill
posters and chorus men and girls refused
to accept a cut in wages of 80 per cent
the managers of the Peoples and Thalia
theaters of Pittsburg have locked all the
200 employees out.
Hosting Engineers of Pittsburg asked
for increase in wages May 1. The de-
mands were refused by few employers
whose engineers are now out
Street car men of Pittsburg have made
a settlement with wage increase for the
Washington and Beaver divisions.
Broommakers of Pennsylvania are ask
ing that a demand be created for their
label.
Superintendent Charles Deacon of the
Union Printers Home, Colorado Springs,
lectured in Old City hall. Pittsburg. May
IL, on the home.
There is bitter disappointment among
the workers of the Carnegie Steel COM
pany and in other mills of the United
States Steel Corporation for it IS known
that the promised raise is one of those
now you see it, and now you don't" 1t
seems that only certain ones will get
/ their wages raised but all efforts to find
the fortunate ones have so far been fruit
less
| Forced by Representative Hughes OF
New Jersey to come out in the open and
show their colors for or against labor
| just 80 out of a total of 169 ngressmer
present voted to take the yoke of the
Sherman Antitrust Act from the mech
of the American wage worker
The striking suitcase and bag makers
OF Pittsburg have begun the ninth weel
OF their fight. They are all standing
firm, without a desertion from then
ranks.
Did you notice how many candidates
want the workingman's vote? Must be
worth something. Better get together
before it is too late, and elect your owl
men.
The true and only solution for remedy
ing the evils that confront the working
you can stop all abuses.
The molders of all the foundries in
Greenville, Pa, who last December tool
the places of men on strike for higher
wages, are themselves on strike to Sc
cure an advance.
The plant and street cars, of the Seat
tie Electric company were seized by dep
uties of the tax collector because tn,
corporation refused to pay the count,
$4,000 taxes. The car barns were taker
possession of first and then the deputie.
went into the streets and seized car.
wherever they were found and ousteC
crews and passengers.
The Philadelphia Rapid Transit com
pany April asked the permission of tn,
city to float a new loan of $4,000. OOO
President Kruger of the Transit CON
Pany state that the extraordinary ex
penses recently incurred have reduce,
the reserve capital, which the compan,
was counting on to make Improvements.
1t is popularity thought that s2.500,0O
represents the cost Of the strike.
large meeting of Representative
farmers was held In Durango on Satur
day. the 18th inst, when the object of tn,
Farmers Union was fully discussed an,
a committee appointed to arrange TO
their local societies to join the union il
a body. The farmers in this district ar,
among the most progressive in the stat,
and will prove valuable addition to tn,
present membership of the union.-Jat
in Industrial Review
The Durango farmers are taking III
the question of the manner in which the