United labor bulletin., 1911-04-20
A FEW LIVE ITEMS.

A FEW LIVE ITEMS.
A full crew bill on trains has been
adopted by the Washington state legis-
lature and signed by the governor.
Minneapolis hodcarriers have just
gained a good increase in wages and
bettered conditions.
. The mayor of Boston has addressed
letter to the head of every city depart
ment inaugurating the Saturday half hol-
iday without reduction in pay. Where
this particular half holiday conflicts with
the public business another day is to be
selected
The teamsters employed by the ST.
Louis. Mo-, Transfer company have Sc
cured an advance in wages.
Electrical workers of Indianapolis,
Ind, have been granted an increase of
21a cents per hour.
Painters of Indianapolis, Ind, have
just secured an agreement for two years,
carrying an increase for the present year
and an added increase next year
The printerrs on the Fort Worth news
ranging from 4S to 80 cents per hour
Omaha painters have just secured an
other increase in wages, bringing their
scale up to 80 cents per hour.
Holyoke, Mass, tailors, with the as
sistance of Organizer Tazelaar of the
American Federation of Labor and Or
ganizer Pascale of the tailors, have Sc
cl1hGtantia1 m
and bettered conditions after four
days strike.
In wellesley, Mass, the men employed
by the city have been granted 25 cents
per day increase in wages.
The carpenters, painters and team
sters OF Galesburg, ILL.,, gained an in
crease in wages on the first of the pres
ent month without friction.
Painters in Knoxville, Tenn, have just
won an advance in wages and secured an
agreement calling for the union shop.
Minneapolis, Mimi, hod carriers Sc
cured an increased wage and improved
conditions recently.
Preparations for Memorial Sunday,
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large number of towns and cities
where central bodies are located. Each
succeeding year greater attention is be-
ing given to labor's Memorial day
The Amalgamated carpenters of Wash
ington, D. c., secured an increase of six
cents per hour and Saturday half holi-
day
I4 lat &l,o lA%;
survey department at Washington, D. c.,
get an increase of 12K per cent, to take
effect July l, 1911. They are members
of a local union holding charter from the
A. F. of L.
The southern conference on child and
woman labor will be held in Atlanta Ca,
April %. This conference was endorsed
by the Tennessee State Federation of La
Dor at its last session.
j. A. Cable. a union cooper, and Grant
S. Landrey, union printer, of Kansas
City. Kan, were both elected as city
commissioners under the commission
form of city government, the former be-
ing reelected, he having been placed in
that position at the Inauguration of the
commission form of government last
year.
San Antonio structural iron workers
have gained an increase of 80 cents per
day over the wages paid last year.
Los Angeles unionists will hold a mon
ster parade and mass meeting on April
Is. Arrangements are now in progress
to make the occasion the largest eight
hour demonstration ever held in south |
ern California
The iron molders of Akron, Ohio. have
won strike against the Wise Furnace
company and the Twentieth Century
company for an increase in wages.
The supreme court of Kansas recently
handed down "A decision that the eight
hour law of state applies to all work
performed on municipal plants
Four unions allied with the bookbind-
ing industry in st. Louis, Mo-, received
substantial increase in wages on April /.
/ 900 members being affected.
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RUBBER WORKERS ORGANIZING.
A campaign of organization is on