The wageworker., 1910-03-19

Pennsylvania field for an increase inesf
wages was refused at a conference |
between the executive committee of |
the United Mine Workers, district No. |
2, the Clearfield district, and the ex- |
ecutive committee of the association |
of bituminous coal operators. The |
committee met to discuss a new wage
scale agreement to take effect April l. |
The miners representatives were
bound by the resolution passed by the
Indianapolis convention demanding an
increase for all other classes of la
Dor. The operators refused to pay in
creased wages as long as they are
compelled to compete with non-unfon
mines in Pennsylvania and West Vir.
ginia. A strike Of 10000 miners may
be called in the Pittsburg district,
cl0ning the mines of the Pittsburg Coal
Company, as the miners declare their
contract is being violated by the CON-
pany because more men are in the
works than the contract calls for.
Seven hundred men have already quit
work at Suterville
| Baltimore, Md.-The two powerful
railroad labor organizations, the Order
| of Railway Conductors and the Broth
| erhood of Railway Trainmen, which
| have undertaken to secure a general
| increase of the wage scale for all en-
ployes in those branches of the serv-
ice on the principal lines in the
eastern part of the United States and
in Canada, have suffered a repulse at
the very Inauguration of its better-pay
| campaign. Three weeks of negotia-
tions with the Baltimore & Ohio rail-
road, among the first to be approached
in the matter, ended when the COM
pany, through President Daniel Will
lard, declined to accede to the de-
mands of the organization.
New York.-The latest trade to have
union was announced recently by Or
ganizers of the American Federation
of Labor as that of the sheepskin
workers. 1t was found that somehow
this trade had been overlooked, but
organizers here and in Boston got into
communication on the subject, the re-
suit being the forming of the Sheep
skin Workers union in Boston, which
it is said is to be followed by sim
liar organization in New York. When
sufficient enrollments have been made
in the two unions scales of wages will
be agreed upon, covering every kind
of work from preparing parchment for
writing to the making of drumheads.
Kansas City, Moon account of the
increased cost of living, 1,50O. organ
lied carpenters in Kansas City have
made demand on the contractors for
} an increase of ten cents an hour for
their work. There are about 5000
carpenters in Kansas City, the ma
jority of whom are non-union men.
! About $50 of these already have
enlisted with the union in their
: demand for an increase. The date
} set for the increase to take effect is
May 1. The unions demand 65 cents
an hour for foremen and IS cents an
) hour for journeymen carpenters.
} Paris, France.-The threat of gen.
eral strike of the fremen and en-
gineers on the State railroad is due to
the dissatisfaction of the employees of
: the Western railroad, recently taken
T over by the state, with the adjustment
: of premiums accruing under the old
J, management. M. Millerand, minister
!, of public works, posts and telegraphs,
e offered to make certain changes, but
$ the employees were not appeased. The
J, engineers on the State railroad voted
r in favor of strike unless an increase
d in wages was granted them.
: Cleveland, The replies of the
southern railroads to the wage de-
i mands of the Brotherhood of Railway
:. Conductors were opened here. The
# refusal of the railroads to meet the
|, mems terms was unanimous. This
d places the southern railroad situation
e.. +14 fofo hot
y in the territory north of the Chesa
5. peake & Ohio and east of the Missis
n sippi. 1t is now certain that any ac
S ton taken by the men to press theil
l. demands will be simultaneous in the
east and south.
n Washington.-Accord to the bu
n reau of vital statistics of the United
d States government, American bakers
q and cOnfectioners have a death rate
d due to consumption of 25O.1 per 100,
l. 900. The death rate from pneumonia
e amounts to 117.4 per 100000. From
u these two causes, both growing out o
" their occupation, their death rate Il
II 1915 per 100000. The average deatl
p rate among all people is 110 pc
ir 100000.
Boston.-March I the 65 cents al
" hour rate went into effect for th
le members of Boston Operative Plaster
r. ers' union, according to the terms o
lie the agreement which settled th
strike last year.
le Manila, P. Following the refusa
IS of the owners to grant series of de
le mands, the crews of the inter-islan'
s. steamers struck, tying up the vessel
r. and so holding up the mails. It i
Of claimed the strike was instigated b,
at Dominador Gomez, former presiden
le of the Nationalist party. The strik
ir breaks a two years pact entered int
IN by the owners and crews last fall.
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