El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-03-15

DiciDaI building. New York. to the bot
tom of an elevator shaft and treated ms
experience so lightly that those VINO
ran to his aid found him rollIng a
cigaret- Brunnon was saved from pc
ing dashed to pieces because he landed
on a bundle Of empty bags
President simon O'DOnneu Of the
Chicago Building Trades council; NJ.
sullivan. international president Of
the Amalgamated Steel Metal WORK
ers' union and William McSorIey,
International president of the Wood,
Wire and Metal Lath w orkers union,
are in San Francisco on Official visits
to their organizations
Following a series Of conferences
between officers of the Illinois Central
and the Order of Railway Telegraphers
a new contract has been made by which
more than 1000 Of the cOmpany's ODer-
atOrs viii receive an increase in pay,
The schedule is so arranged that the
increase viii apply in accordance with
the responsibilities at different sta
tiOns.
The INDIANA legislature has before it
a bill to amend the full crew law of
the state so as to forbid the employ
ment on any trains of any person ex-
cept men regularly employed as engine
men, firemen, conductors and brake
men. T. A Feick claimed that the
railroads were flasrantly violating
the present law by CHASING cOlOred
pOrters as brakemen-
Representative Curley of Massachu-
sets has introduced in congress a bill
looking to the amendment of the con-
sutution so as TO give congress the
right to regulate the hours of labor
throughout the United States Cotton
and wooden manufacturers and other
employers in Massachusetts, suffer
because Of the lax labor laws in other
states.
The conference of Painters of the
Pacific Northwest. which was in ses-
sion at the Labor Temple in Sacra-
mentO, Calf. has concluded it DELHI
eratiOnS and the delegates have re-
turned to their homes. Representa-
tives from the Painters locals in
Washington, Oregon and British
Columbia TO the number of twenty
were in attendance.
The awards committee of the Penn
sylvania railroad both east and west
of Pittsburgh, are expected to meet
with officials OF the road at Pittsburgh
in a few weeks and make the awards
for the entire system, The awards on
some OF the eastern roads have already
been made IneSe awards continue for
no stated period but each side, under
the agreement, must give the other so
days notice before breaking them.
The general committee on awards
of the brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers viii meet in Indianapolis, Ind, (
to settle with the officials of the Van
Gaia rallroad the awards made by the
general managers OF the fifty-four
eastern railroads. regarding wages /
hours OF se<.Ic and improved working
conditions The committee on awards ,
is composed OF the chairmen of the
various locals Of the B. OF L. E, on the /
Nandala system The session is ex-
pected 10 continue for several days.
An increase in wages Of $3.50 week
mas Deeh ooJalned by the plumbers OF Q
Cincinnati The advance carries win I
Il better working conditions includ-
ing a sympathetic strike clause in the 4
contract winch has heretofore been [
members say the sympathetic strike I
clause IS one of the most Important /
features the new contract and a !
clause the plumbers Of Cincinnati and l
oNler Ohio cities have been asl1ine for
mAny years The new wage scale is I
S9N5O a week.
nan Tobin, president of the tcrus-er-
in An official report, says a per capita