El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-03


The Union OF Boiier Makers in Eng
land has, by a referendum vote, decided
10 withdraw from the Labor party
The telephone girls Of Minneapolis
and St Paul are to take vocal culture
lessons, their employers paying the tui-
tion bills.
A glass bottle blowing machine, in
vented in Germany has speed OF 2Ocg
bottles an hour, equal TO the work OF
go expert glass blowers
As a result of the extra work caused
by the flood. Indianapolis at present
needs paper hangers. Officials of the
union say % paper hangers could be
used.
Theodore Ruff. a teamster has been
In the employ Of the CuCahy Bros COM
pany in Milwaukee, for the last %
years He has missed only three days
in that time.
A controversy between the Interns-
uonal & Great Northern and its firemen
has been settled by an agreement on
new working conditions and slight ad-
vances in pay, affecting 500 men
The miners OF the Eanawha CIV. Va
coal fields have voted to accept the pro
pOsal of governor Hatfield and to end
the strike which has been in progress
for more than year and has been
marked by violence and blOOdShed.
Frog shops Of the Milwaukee road
at TOmah, Wis, at which the frogs
Tor the entire system are made. were
closed when 500 expert frog makers
for higher wages and for the removal
Of foreman they disliked.
About 80 members of the Master
Painters association, of Indianapolis.
the members of the painters union.
when an agreement was signed which
caIls Tor u cents an hour for the
members Of the painters union.
Between 200 and ESQ union truck
men. Of Rochester, N Y. went on
strike, completely tying up the work
OF two of the largest trucking cOmpa-
MES which handle practically all the
big business contracts in the city. The
men demand an increase in wages
Because Of a strike of employees Of
the Chicago Rubber Clothing com
pany Of Racine, Wis, manufacturers Of
ladies' and mems rainprOOf coats and
listers, the company may discontinue
the manufacture OF such goods and en-
sage IN the manufacture Of automobile
A jury in the federal court at Min
neapolis has awarded II W. Otis. OF
WIlmar, Mimi. a judgment Of $50 600
against lne Great -AoEtnern railway on
account I-Ine loss OF leg while coup
ing cars equipped with an old style
coupling where there should have been
an automatic coupler.
An amendment TO the constitution
which, when ratified by two-thirds of
the states, would give congress the
power 10 make uniform the hours of
labor throughout the United States. is
the house Of representatives by repre-
sentative Curley, Of Massachusetts.
Uncle Sam is the greatest user Of
printers ink in the world His annual
printing bill amounts to some $4,000. 900
year More than three-fOurths of this
IS expended in Washington. while the
balance represents printing done for the
courts and other branches Of the ma
tlcnal establishment outside of the cap
ital city.
Portuguese ana Russian immigrants
from Hawaii are flOc6ing into CalifOr-
MA at the rate Of 500 a week or about
$4,000 a year. according to the figures
OF steamship companies made public If
the exodus continues, within a year. the |
planJaJ tons viii be F1lipinOs, japanese
and Chinese.
Two suits involving Signor Heintzel-
man and the Pressmen's union local
gudge Fierce in the superior court
Heintzelman sought to have one OF his
presSmen, Joseph G. Koch, recognized
as member Of the union because he I
held union card when engaged; but
the court found that the card had been
issued by mistake and that Koch is not
a member.
Wooden mills in Rhode Island are cur
failing seriously as a result Of threat
ened tariff changes. At OlneyvilIe.
where 5000 people are employed, hun
lreQs OF Skllled Workmen are out OF
Work, with the American Wooden COM
oany doing practically nothing. al
though it. employs 5000 hands when /
business is good. The Atlantic and !
Priscilla mills have discharged 1900 |
night hands.
That most Of the men employed by
the United states Steel corporation are /
not satisfied TO work less than y hours I,
= day and would leave the employ of 0
he company If their hours were re- q
tuced, was the declaration of Ebert Z
H. Gary IN statement before the an /
lual meeting of the steel corporation !
in New York City. In discuss t
Ing various phases of the business Mr..
airy said this was the principal diff ,
'ulty in regard TO the question of the /
hours Of employment