The daily sentinel., 1913-08-16
Labor Notes
TRADES ASSEMBLY HAS
AN INTERESTING MEETING

LAST ntsht meeting OF the local
/ Trades & Labor Assembly was well
I attended, nearly all the crafts being
represented. Routine business was
transacted.
The assembly appointed a commit
tee, consisting of AL Kicker. C. w.
! Culhane and J. r. Beman to draft
resolutions to present to the Commit
tee of Seventy faycring the early
erection OF a new city fire station,
cnly one man voting against the
proposition because he was not in
favor of moving the fire station any
| further from Crawford's addition.
1t was also decided to send a dele
gate to the coming three days con-
vention of the State Federation of
Labor at Trinidad. The delegates
car fare will be paid by the assembly;
also his necessary expenses (S3 per
day. and the wages of his craft for
the four days. Some considerable
! objection was raised to this, but the
proposition carried by a large ma
jority.
Some time back three delegates
were elected and three alternates. but
it developed last night that none of
these could go unless their expenses
We're paid, and several of them could
not go under any consideration. How
ever, it was decided that the western
slope should have at least one dele
gate there.
Ounce Hutton. president Of the
assembly and national organizer for
the American Federation Of Labor,
viii in all probability be the dele
gate Mr.. Hutton is well versed in
the needs Of the laboring men and
women, fluent talker and is GER
tainly the best man that could be
picked. He will leave en- No. this
evening for Trinidad.
Arrangements have been completed
whereby the Tin Plate Workers In
ternational Protective Association
and the Amalgamated Association OF
Iron, Steel q Tin Workers are merged
into one organization.
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The Typographical Union has Sc
cured an agreement with all the
newspaper and job offices in Jack
son, Mich, the job scale being raised
81 week and the newspaper scale
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Employees of the Interstate electric
road at Attleboro. Mass, have re-
ceived notice of a raise in wages. The
men on cars are to receive 23 cents
an hour for the first six months, in
stead of % cents. A raise for ali of
the grades is in the same proportion.
The probability of a strike of lead
miners in st. Francois county, Mo,
said to be one of the largest lead
districts in the country. became evil
dent this week when the mine oper-
nngfal a nnttsa n nninp a
raise of 10 cents a day in wages to
the men who last week voted to go
out on strike.
\ The 26 manufacturers concerned
in the strike declared this week by
the international Garment Workers
| Union at st. Louis, Mo-, have agreed
to ignore the union and to maintain
only open shops hereafter.
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In the case of Staerich VS.. Pearson
Mining Company, decided by the su-
preme court OF Minnesota, 1t ap-
! peared that the plaintiff and a fell
I low servant were engaged in shake
blasting" in the breast of a mins by
means of dynamite and cans and fus-
es. The practice was for each to
| light fuse at the same time and
] llltil ull W a pave VI Sdltly ulItil
both blasts exploded. On one occas-
len each of the workmen had tried
/ to light his fuse, but only one eX-
plosion was heard. They remained
away for five minutes, and when
/ they went back an explosion took
place. 1t appeared that the plaintiff
was a miner of some months expert
ence and there was no evidence that
he did not know how long he should
stay away from the blast, though
there was some evidence to the eff
feet that both should have remained
away / 5 or 20 minutes. The court
held that the evidence did not show
the existence OF any duty to instruct
him in regard to the time, and that,
it having been shown that the fuse
was of the length usually furnished
for the class of work in question, the
fact that II was not longer furnished
nc ground of liability on the part of
the defendant.