The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-04-01
Conditions Of the Toilers Being
Improved Through Many
Channels.
EFFECT OF SLIDING SCALE
IN MONEY RETURNS.
Metal Trades Workers on Della
ware and Hudson Get an In
crease in Pay.

crease IN Pay.
The sliding scale" established by
the strike commission, which was ap-
pointed by the president of the United
States to settle the strike of 1902,
brought the anthracite mine workers
about $$,900.000 in the year 1910. Be-
sides granting a 10 per cent increase
IN wages to all classes of mine work.
ers, the commission provided that
they should share in the profits when
ever the price of coal should rise.
Thus it was decreed that the mine
workers should receive an increase of
l per cent in pay for every increase
of cents above $3.50 in the average
price of coal at tidewater. The United
States commissioner of labor sends to
the operators every month a notice in
forming them of the average tidewater
price in the preceding month, and Of
the percentage rate by which the
mems pay is to- be advanced. The
average monthly bonus in 1910 was 4
f0oA ~SAAN' L AC oAap4AC41IS VI dAl1I dC1l0
In the year amounted to 64,9O5,76S
tons. AS the labor cost of ton is
about $3.50, the average per cent in
crease in wages made the years total
increase from the operation of the
sliding scale" about $3,900,000..
A machinists strike at the Con-
tinental Motor works of Muskegon,
Mich, which may cause a complete
shut down, is on.
Recently a union organizer, Clar-
ence E. Dowd of Detroit went to
Muskegon on an organizing campaign
Six union men were discharged on
the charge of trying to encourage
non-union men to join the union :
Mr.: DoWd went to the superinterl-
dent and tried: to have. the six mon
reinstated. After some discussion the
superintendent called all the union
men in the shop; mum bering 12o. and
gave them their choice of quitting the
union or the shop. ,
The men quit the shop and ESQ
non-union men, in sympathy with the
union workmen, walked out. This de-
prives the shop of nearly half the
force, and at present the company
is pressed for help.
Several thousand men connected
! with the metal trades and employed
between Scranton and Albany by the
Delaware & Hudson railway, will be
benefited by an increase in wages: Ma
chinists will be paid from 29 to 80
cents per hour and boilmakers will
receive proportionate increases. Nine
hour will constitute a days work and
overtime will be paid for at the rate
of time and onehalf. When holidays
fall on Sundays, the men will be paid
overtime rate on the following Mon
Gay.
After short struggle with the en-
ployers, the Teamsters' union of East
St. Louis succeeded in gaining an in
| crease in wages of 81 per week, for
| carrigae drivers and stablemen, Wh!dh
] now makes their scale SIS per week
and closed shop agreement Af-
ter number Of conferences with the
undertakers without any results the
matter was finally handed over to
the board of arbitration. Three meet
ings of the board sufficed to settle
the matter and the point was gained.
All the members Of local No. 66.
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the distilleries of Terre Haute, Ind.
have received an increase of 10 per
cent in their wages, amounting to
$3.50 per week. This increase was
granted without any effort on the
part of the organization.
Fire Commissioner Waldo in New
York invited bids recently for the
construction of ten portable black
smith shops in which all the fire
horses are to be shod. The shops
will be on wheels and will travel from
engine house to engine house. Union
horseshoers will be employed at
union wages and will be appointed
under civil service rules.
The printing pressmen of Sioux
City. Ia, recently completed negotia-
tons whereby the men were granted
an increase in wages amounting to
20 per cent for web, flatbed and job
pressmen, and also much better work.
ing conditions.
The scale committee of the Typo
graphical union of Hartford. Conn.,,
recently signed a. new agreement with
the employing printers whereby tile
| men are benefited by a substantial in
crease in wages. The morning news
paper scale was advanced from $24 to
/ $25 per week, the evening newspaper
scale from $21 to $22 per week, the
book and job hand scale from 1850
to SIS and the book and job ma
chine scale from $40 to $22 per week.
The molders. machine operators and
apprentices, who. struck two weeks
ago at the Plymouth Foundry COM
pany plant In Boston, won an increase
in wages of 5 per cent and all other
conditions asked. The men have all
returned to work. e..
Beginning May l, 1911. the Carpen-
ters' union of LaPorte, Ind, will make
q demand upon the contractors for a
flat scale of wages of 45 cents per
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