Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1911-12-08
For Union Workers
Important Happenings In
Industrial Circles In This

Indianapolis.-The annual report OF
Frank Duffy. general secretary Of the
United Brotherhood of Carpenters
and Joiners. Just issued, shows that
the total membership Of the organiza-
ton In good standing was 1s5.766 on
June 80. 1911. The total disbursements
Of Thomas Neale. general treasurer.
during the year were s74s,14s.32. leav-
ing q balance In the hands OF the
union of s212,612.5e. Since the clos
ing of the books on the day the re-
port terminates. however. the carpen-
tiers have added a little more than
$780, ZOO to their balance. The benev-
client features of the carpenters In
ciude sick benefits. which are paid
soiely by the local unions. and. there
fore. are not included in the general
secretary's report; strike benefits and
death benefits. During the fiscal year
covered by the report, the carpenters
paid out s276.s3077 in death benefits.
The maximum benefit paid by the
general organization does not exceed
benefits is greater than .nat paid dur
Ing any preceding year. the nearest
approach being In the fiscal year 1908,
wnen s255,574.s9 was paid out.
Washington.-President w. Finley
Of the Southern railway has announced
that several hundred clerical employees
Of that company have been given an
advance In wages. The increases
range from five per cent to for en-
ployes who have been in the service
but a short time. to IL per cent. to
those who have seen Eve years or
more service. Arrangements were
completed whereby the telegraph op-
orators viii be granted the increases
recently promised them. The average
increase to them VIII amount to about
fifteen per cent, which means an adj
ditional outlay of about $125.0oo a
year.
Boston.-The question Of the pro-
posed extension of the IRE limits and
frst-class building construction laws
so as to include ell the residential dis
tricts OF Boston has aroused the mem
bers OF q number Of Boston unions.
All the carpenters, fathers and gen.
eral building unions oppose the step
on the grounds that It would prevent
the wage-earner from building a home
In Boston: and they also maintain
that the present building laws are all
right, but that there should be better
enforcement Of them, and likewise
better fire protection In the districts
Washington.-Six steel and 102
wooden vessels were completed by
American ship builders during Octo-
Der, the department Of commerce and
labor announces. Their combined
tonnage was 10.s3s. On the Atlantic
and gulf, ffty-five vessels were built
on the great lakes twenty-four. and
on the Pacific fifteen. Three were
turned out In Porto Rico and eleven
on western rivers.
New York.-The increase In idle
ness in the transportation trades of
New York and In the allied metal
trades was big during the first SIX
months of the present year. according
to the bulletin just issued from the
state labor ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS in
fact than at any time since the panic
Of 1907.
Madison, Wis.-The Wisconsin su-
preme court sustained the constitu-
tionality Of the workmen's compensa-
ton law enacted at the last session OF
the legislature A large number of
Wisconsin corporations had already
decided to come under the law.
Berlin. Germany.-There IL pow.
erful movement In Germany to re-
quire all girls. regardless of station,
to do compulsory domestic service,
Just as the young men are required
under the law to do compulsory mill.
tary service.
Stockholm. Sweden.-The lockout IN
the building trades of Sweden is grad,
uaily drawing to an end through one
irm after another deserving the mas.
ters' organization and making peace
on their own account
washington.--Great progress has
been made in the last year IN improv.
ing the working conditions Of children
In the United States. according to the
annual report of the national child To-
Dor committee.
Pittsburg.-The International Mold
ers' union reports total decrease in
membership for the quarter OF 2.s15
with an expenditure in sick benefits
!, for the same period of S45.327.
Birmingham, England. = Twenty
thousand women in this city. It Il
stated. are working at carding hooks
and eyes at an average from half q
crown to four shillings q week.
Porghkeepsie.-Six thousand opera
tors, towermen and agents on the
New York Central lines will get an
increase Of from 10 to is per cent in
their wages.
Chicago.-Labor leaders assert that
the fight between the plumbers and
steam filters has cost the building
trades workmen Of Chicago ss.56s. 900
London. Eng.-The British govern
ment has decided to appoint board
Of trade commission, empowered to ar
bitrate labor disputes.
Worcester. Mass.-The Massachu
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