United labor bulletin. (Denver, Colo.) 19??-1915, 1910-05-26
LABOR NOTES

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Seattle brewers obtained an increase
of 50 to 81 per week.
How much have you done for the
union label this year?
Buffalo painters and decorators now
receive 40 cents per hour.
The Harbor Boatmen's Union of New
York City has a membership OF 5000.
The label is the most important thing
to the wage earners of the world to-day.
Cleveland fathers obtained an increase
of so cents day. They now earn $3.50.
The Bakers unions throughout the en-
tire United States are making great
Roadway.
The present membership of the San
Francisco Building Trades Council is
above the 10000 mark.
The Textile Workers have added fifty
thousand members to their organization
since the Philadelphia troubles.
Union Labor of Pittsburg will give
housewarming Decoration Day, May
%, to celebrate the opening of their
new labor temple.
The United Brotherhood of Carpen-
ters and Joiners of Pittsburg, Pa, will
celebrate their twenty-fourth anniver-
sary next month.
If the union men would quit boycott
ting one another's union label products,
labor unions would be in a stronger po-
sition than they are to-day.
Perhaps the greatest benefit of union
labor lies in the fact that so many
millions are united in the struggle for
better conditions among men.
The United States Bureau of Labor
states that the fatal accidents to wage
earners in the United States are be-
tween 10000 and $4,000 a year.
More men are killed by accidents
every year in the United States than
were killed during any one year of the
Civil war. Last years death roll totaled
| 81. 900.
Three hundred girl shoemakers at
Cleveland struck when they found that
a time clock had been installed. They
were out five minutes; now the clock
is out
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hour day in the ranks of the cigar
makers of the United States within the
last few years the average life of men
engaged in the craft has increased fif-
teen years.
Striking miners to the number OF
10000 gathered together last week from
a number of small districts in Pennsyl
vania and marched to Greensburg. par
aiding the streets. there are about
10000 out in that section, the Irwin field
A new local of blacksmiths was insti
tuted by ]. H. Tapken, Business Mana
ger of District Council No. SO. Interna
tional Brotherhood of Biacksmiths and
Helpers. at Braddock. Pa. last week
assisted by a number of local labor men
President William D. Huber of the
United Brotherhood of Carpenters ant
Joiners says that at the rate the or
ganization is growing at present he ex
poets the paid-up membership TO pass
the 100000 mark by June so, the enc
/ of the calendar year.
1t is stated that Senator Borah, Of
Idaho will introduce resolution calling
for a thorough and complete congress
ional investigation of all iron and stee
INDUSTRIES throughout the country fol
lowing the report of the investigation
committee on the Bethlehem Steel Com
pany of Bethlehem, Pa.
The lives of 200 miners were snuffed
out by an explosion in mine No. 8 OF
the Palos Coal & Coke Co. 25 miles
from Birmingham. Ala. OF the entombed
men, 20 are white and $50 are negroes.
Women and children. believing them
selves to be widows and orphans. are
gathered about the pit, making frantic
efforts to break past the guards and
enter the mine themselves. The scenes
here are said to be similar to the recent
disaster at Cherry, Ill. where over 400
miners were killed. 1t is said that the