Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-09-14
NOTES FROM THE
WORLD Of LABOR
General Review OF What Is Goinq On
Among the Labor
ORGANIZATIONS


Organizations
The International Convention of the
Operative PIasterers will meet in Mil
waukee on September 30.
During the six months ending June
30 the Brotherhood of Painters and the
Decorators iprty-eight new local un-
ions, the organization now having s94
local unions in good standing.
In Berlin several Offices have been
opened where women workers may
lodge complaints as to the sanitary
condition OF the buildings in which
they work. without necessarily giving
their own names.
The International Brotherhood of
Bookbinders has sent out from the
general office in indianapolis the
statement that the conflict which has
been on for two years between the
local unions in New York and the
main organization has been settled.
The Belgian Socialist are actively
organizing a huge strike of every kind
Of labor, by which they hope to Sc.
cure universal suffrage pure and
simple, as against the present plural
vote, which gives the upper classes
such an advantage oser the lower
The executive council of the Am
erican Federation of Labor has al
firmeG the lecent action of resident
Samuel Gompers,in revoking the char
ter of the Amalgamated Society of
Carpenters and Joiners, which has
failed to obey the order of the Allan
tic convention that it unite with Uui-
ted Brotherhood
Out of the $3.50 industrial accidents
reported to the California industrial
board 133 were fatal-S.6 per cent. of
all accidents in that class. Construc-
ton work comes with a percentage of
5.5, followed by agriculture, with 90.
The unions Of Salem, Ore, have
succeeded in having the city pass an
ordnance providing that resident la
borers shall have the preference over
non-residcnts with contractors on pub
lie work At the last election the
city charter was amended so that
resident laborers should have the pre-
ference and the ordinance carries the
amendment into effect.
The paper makers organizations
have obtained an eight-hour day and
what is known in the trade as the
" hree-hour system in seventeen
mills in and around Holyoke. Mass,
None of the men now enjoying the
eigat-hour day have received any re-
duction in wages. Some received an
Increase. The rates run from 1915 a
day to machine tenders and beaten en-
gineers to $1.75 to fourth hands.
"three-hour system" in seventeen
made by the Illinois State supreme
court which are important TO the or
sanized labor movement The court
sustained the constitutionality of the
woman's ten-hour employment act as
revised by the legislature in 1911, al
so the constitutionality of the chauif.
eur's license automobile act. and the
right # labor unions to call strikes or
use any lawful means in maintaining
and furthering their organizations
A case involving the right Of unions
the courts in Tacoma, Wash, recent
courts in Tacoma, Wash, recent-
ly. "A member Of the local union Of
American Federation of Musicians be-
gan legal proceedings to compel his
reinstatement in the local union with
out d corresponding compliance with
laws in force in the local union. The
court dismissed the petition. thus sus-
tanning the local union in its position
Of nsgtng on the enforcement of its
laws.