The wageworker., 1910-02-26

ganiZatlon because of the deadlock
over the admission of the miners dele
gates from Illinois, the joint wage
conference of the bituminous coal op-
orators and miners of Ohio, Indiana
and Pennsylvania adjourned sine die.
This is declared. does not mean neces-
sarily suspension of work at the eX-
piration of the present contract, April
l. This would affect all of the bltum-
inous districts controlled by the mine
workers, as they decreed at their In
dianapolis convention that no district
should sign a wage scale until the
scales for all districts were negoti-
ated. Both sides have declared, how
ever, that they will not recede on the
Illinois proposition. Some plan may
be worked out to get the miners and
operators together again before
April L.
New York.-Progress is being slow
ly but surely made on the tuberculosis
sanatorium project of the Brooklyn
Central Labor Union which it proposes
to erect on it's plot of land near Med
ford, in Nassau county. Recently a
proposition was adopted by the Ger
organizations of labor in Greater New
York to contribute a small amount
yearly toward the support of the in
stitution when built, reasoning that by
this means with the support and main
tenance of the sanitarium assured, it
would be much easier to go into the
market and raise funds for the nee
essary buildings. So far the plan has
worked well, many of the unions re-
spending promptly and cheerfully.
Clifton Heights. Pa.-The striking
employees of the Runnemede worsted
mills of this borough held meetings
and discussed plans for a settlement
with the Thomas Kent Manufacturing
Company. The strikers have receded
from their original plan of asking ten
per cent. increase in wages, and So
hours work. The committee now asks
for an increase of five per cent. in
wages and 60 hours to constitute
weeks work. Just now there is little
likelihood of the strike being settled
at the strikers proposition. The town
is orderly, with the exception of a
number of drunken foreigners, who
walked about the streets, but were
later ordered to remain in their homes
by the police.
Washington.-TheA American Fedora
tion of Labor received notice from SO
national and international organiza-
tions during the year 1909 showing
that 1,476 charters were issued. and
that 1,345 had been surrendered. OF
those surrendered III had been issued
NV "a Inn incn ada nf Il q
the others by national and internation-
al organizations. From the reports by
"a organizations up to September 1,
their gain in membership was S3,601.
The greatest gain was by the United
Mine Workers-51, ,654-and the next
highest by the garment workers. S,497.
Boston.-The work for the raising of
the fund for the memorial monument
for the grave of the late Edward B.
Monaghan of Boston has begun. 1t
will be exclusively a tribute of the
steam engineers unions of the coun-
try. Mr. Monaghan was an ex-interna-
tional president, a national councillor.
and was the editor of the international
journal at the time of his death last
summer.
| the United Mine Workers who have
| returned from the Toledo conference
do not expect a strike because of the
failure to reach wage agreement
with the operators, and it is regarded
as certain that there will be no strike
until late in the fall.
| Lincoln. Neb.-The directors of the
Lincoln Labor Temple association
have closed deal for the purchase of
a two-story brick building on a lot
so by 100 feet. The purchase price
was $4,000 on reasonable terms.
New York.-It was announced last
week that the locomotive engineers of
the eastern roads will present wage re-
quests to all within a short time. The
liremen, like the conductors and train
men, have already done SO.
Boston.-The executive order OF
| Mayor Hibbard that the trades union
wage rates be paid all mechanical
men in the city employ is being OBJ
served by all the department heads, il
is stated.
Pittsburg, Pa.-Successful efforts
have been made to organize new locals
of the Bridge and Structural Iron
Workers of America, at Lincoln, Neb.
and Des Moines, la.
| Boston-Five hundred clerks EN-
ployed in the general offices in Bostor
of the Boston & Maine railroad re
ceived notice of a ten per cent. raise
in wages.
| Milwaukee.-The Machinists' unio1
has gained more than one hundred
members since August.
Washington.-Shoe workers of Ar
roya, Porto Rico, have formed ;
union.
Toronto, nada.-Toronto black
smiths recently formed a union
Philadelphia.-Fro the operation
of the sliding scale arrangement, b.
which wages advance with the price
of coal, the Pennsylvania anthracite
| u,ipe workers received an advance il