United labor bulletin. (Denver, Colo.) 19??-1915, 1913-12-13

strike unless their demand Tor an
eight-hour day was granted, the men
went to the mills. started the fires and
then walked out. The strikers num-
Der about $50. Should the strike be
long continued it is believed the mills.
employing $4,000 operatives. would be
forced to shut dc IN. owing to the law
which prohibits the operation of a
manufacturing establishment for more
than one week without licensed fire.
men. The firemen have heretofore
worked 70 hours day and seven days
week. Before voting to strike the
union rejected compromise offer
from the manufacturers of 60nour
week, with two days off in seven
weeks.
Portland, Ore.-A new law that
places Oregon in the front rank of the
states that have adopted measures de-
signed to better the condition of wom-
an workers has become operative. The
law fixes minimum wage Of $9.25 a
week for adult woman clerks who are
not apprentices; defines eight hours
and twenty minutes as the maximum
days work and so hours as the maxi
mum for week and makes p. IN. as
the latest hour at which any woman
may be employed in any day of the
year in mercantile establishment.
The law automatically eliminates Sat
urday night shopping and Christmas
holiday night shopping in such estab
lishments
London. England.-About GOO men
employed at the metal works of Allen.
Everett & Sons at Smethwick, Bir-
mingham. went on strike the other day
as result of the suspension from
work of w. Salmon, an employee, who
was an unsuccessful labor candidate
for election to Smethwick town coun-
Gil. Salmon was under the impression
that he had been suspended because
he was a labor candidate. but the
managing director said 1t was be-
cause Salmon absented himself. from
work on Saturday without permission.
Salmon afterwards told the men he
and the strike ended
Vancouver, B. C.-Seventeen hun
dred men quit work on the Pacific
Great Eastern railway grade between
Newport and Lilloost. completely tying
up work there. The Industrial Work
ers of the World, who caused the
strike. declare that all the railway
workmen in British Columbia will go
out, for the chief object of the strike is
to protest against the sentencing to
Jail of the Nanaimo miners engaged in
the recent riots. The strikers are also
asking a minimum wage of 81 a day
and an eight-hour day. The Industrial
Workers of the World declare they
have membership of 10.400 men in
the railroad camps.
Halifax, n. San increase of six
per cent to all workmen now earning
under So day as employees of the
Dominion Coal company. will be grant
ed January l, in accordance with an
agreement announced that has been
reached between the company and the
Provincial Workmen's association.
About 10000 men are involved. includ
ing those now earning 50 or more a
day, whose wages in certain cases the
company has undertaken to increase.
The present wage scale expires at the
end of the year, and negotiations for
more satisfactory contracts for the
coming three years were begun in Sep
TENDER.
Cleveland, O.-The Iron Trade Re
view says: After driving plants at
maximum capacity for more than a
year, steel mill managers in all sec
lions of the country now are cutting
down working schedules to a consider
able extent. and large bodies of men
probably will be laid of shortly unless
demand for iron and steel products
improves. Every effort is being made
to keep working forces intact as long
as possible, but. wAth no Immediate
prospects for improved conditions in
sight, labor probably will suffer.
New York.-An average increase OF
about ten per cent. will be granted the
$1,000 trainmen on eastern railroads
by the award of the arbitration com
mission, it is reported. 1t was said
that the award established the prin
ciple that wages in the east should be
as high as those paid in the west for
similar services and that on this basis
the men were to receive the Increase.
This was only part OF what they asked.
Punxsutawney, Pa.-Between 800
and 900 miners employed by the Clear
field Bituminous Coal corporation at
its Rossiter operations. six miles from
here. resumed work after strike
which began Octobe~ %, when this
army of workmen left the mines in
body over dispute of IS months
standing. The miners resumed work
voluntarily. having decided to accept
the decision of arbitrators. 81.
Wy
secretary of the American Federation
OF Labor, addressing the Western La
Dor immigration congress. denounced
former President Taft for yetoing the
immigration bill passed year ago.
and declared that employers who op-'
posed this bill were bent on tearing