United labor bulletin., 1914-01-03

scale of $8.25 week for all women
employed in industrial occupations In
the state of Oregon and fixes f1fty-four
hours as the maximum they may be
employed in any one week. The time
of employment before woman shall
be considered an experienced worker
and entitled to the minimum wage is
fixed at one year and the wage for
the apprentice period is fixed at SO
week. I'VE deem that the sum re-
quired to retain self-supporting wo-
man in frugal but decent conditions of
living is an absolute minimum Of $s.26
week." says the report Of the con-
ference on which the commissions
ruling Is based.
Washington.-Assist Secretary of
the Navy Roosevelt began a series OF
hearings of the claims of employees OF
Atlantic navy yards and stations for
increased wages. Representatives
from the Portsmouth, N. H., yard were
the first received. The law provides
that all navy yard employees shall re-
ceive for their various crafts COM
pensation equal to that paid in sim
liar civil establishments In the same
vicinity. Mr. Roosevelt said he would
not announce the result of any hear
ing until the claims OF all of the navy
yards shall have been presented to
him.
Washington. - President Wilson
looks upon the recent Indictment OF
officers of the United Mine Workers at
Pueblo Colo, as an answer to criti-
cisms that the sundry civil bill ex-
empts labor unions from the operation
of the Sherman antitrust law. The
president made 1t clear that the initia-
tive in the prosecution came neither
from the department Of justice nor the
United States attorney at Pueblo. but
was taken by the federal grand jury.
washington.-That the native-born
of America are refusing to bear chill
dren for whom they cannot insure IA
vorable conditions in life. was the ar
gument of Frank Morrison, secretary
of the American Federation of Labor.
for the restriction of immigration be-
fore the house immigration committee.
He argued If the pending restrictive
bill passed wages would advance and
the native-born Americans would rear
families.
l. New York.-George Lansbury, trus-
tee of the Gas and General Laborers'
Union of Great Britain and ex-member
of parliament. after a conference with
labor leaders here, announced that the
British working men and women are
about to start the greatest Industrial
| revolution In the history of the ma
tion for the purpose of forcing the
government ownership Of railroads and
mines.
Washington.-A substantial wage
increase was granted to boilermakers.
machinists and other members of the
| federated shop trades who have been
in dispute with the Chicago & Alton
railroad, according to report to Sec
retary of Labor Wilson from James
Hogan, representative of the depart
ment, who went to Chicago to mediate
the dispute.
New Haven, Conn.-Former Presi-
dent William Taft took stand oppos-
ing compulsory arbitration of labor
disputes. which he said had been found
useless, and advocates the appoint
ment of tribunal which should refer
its decisions to public opinion for the
settlement OF strikes. Professor Taft
gave this opinion in a short talk at
Yale university.
Bloomington, Ill.-The Chicago g.
Alton railroad concluded negotiations
with committee OF shop employees
whereby the men employed in the To-
cal shops of the company receive wage
increase amounting to about $50, 900
|
ed. Under the new scale minimum pay
for mechanics is 40 cents an hour.
London, England.-The strike OF
| 1.5O0 men on the Great Western rail-
way, which tied up trafflc four days.
was settled at conference of the men
with the representative of the board
of trade. The strike followed the re-
fusal Of one engineer to haul freight
that had been handled by strikebreak-
ers in Dublin.
Charleston, w. va-Earl Henry,
chief Of the mine department OF West
Virginia. has compiled a statement
showing that there are 70.321 men en-
ployed in the states mining industry.
or this number 32.612 are Americans.
$4,000 are negroes and 23.709 are for
eigners. of whom the majority are
Italians.
Newark, GA retrenchment order
received here from Baltimore caused
the wholesale discharge Of employees
in the Baltimore & Ohio shops here.
The statement Is made that the layon
is only for few weeks. but indica-
tions are it will extend further. The
order affects 600 employees.
Cumberland, Md.-At the Western
Maryland shops here Foreman Trout
stated that. although the machinists
and boilermakers' strike had been
called OF, none Of the 80 strikers Will