The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-11-06

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The Hospital Nurses and At
tendants' Union, consisting of en-
ployes of the State institution in
Kankakee, Ills, is Increasing in
numbers and effectiveness. This
organization is chartered by the A
i F. of l., as are similar organiza
tions in Dunning and Elgin, which
are intended to assure reasonable
wages, and hours, and decent treat
ment.
The Canadian Trades and Labor
Congress adopted report of its
immigration committee advocating
the exclusion of Asiatics from the
/ Dominion and urged legislation for
bidding Asiatics now in the country
to employ white female labor I he
report also recommended, for the
better regulation of immigration in
British possessions, the creation of
a central board Of the imperial gov
ernment, with colonial representa-
tives among its members. M. M.
Donoghue, of Butte, Montana, at
tended the c, INVENTION as fraternal
delegate from the American Feder-
alton of Labor.
The present wage agreement be-
tween the Pacific Telephone and
Telegraph Company and the Paci-
6c District Council of Electrical
workers has beer renewed by a
referendum vote Of the Interested
unions. The agreement will hold
good until January l, 1916, and
will affect wire men in California,
Washington Oregon, Arizona,
Nevada, British Columbia and a
portion of Idaho.
The Kalamazoo Corset Company
is in the hands cf receivers, by ac-
tion of the Federal District Court,
sitting in Grand Rapids, Mich
The assets of the company are given
as s579, 296 with liabilities of
S463 544 This concern has fought
its girl employees, who have been
on strike for three years, The con
test was given wide publicity be-
cause of the vigor US manner in
which these workers presented
their claims for public sympathy
Several of them were jailed for
violating injunctions that denied
them the right to ask strikebreak-
ers to stay away from the plant.
Striking textile workers of At
lanta, who are insisting on a living
wage, decent working conditions
and the abolishment of child labor
in the mills, are as de ermined as
ever to win their point Trade
unionists and sympathizers are
responding to apPe Is for aid to
carry on this fight, and the dona-
ton Of 81, 900 by the brewery
workers, in their recent Baltimore
convention, is indicative Of the
general feeling that the winning
of this 6gnt means, to large ex-
tent, the redemption of southern
mill workers and the end Of child
slavery. The strikers are housed
in tents. They are members Of
the United Textile Workers of
America
The committee of unionists at
Philadelphia, arranging for the A
F. of L convention, to be held next
mouth, announce that monster
night parade, in honor of the event
will be held Friday, November, 13.
1t is believed 80, QUO working men
and women will be in line, as over
-, 900 have already signed their
intention to take part Another
feature of the convention will be
label exhibit which will cover more
than 25, 600 square feet of floor
space in the large convention hall
The products of the country's best
known manufacturers will b,
shown at this time Unexpected /
results have followed the activities
Of the labor forward" movement,
and new unions and increased |
membership lists Of established or
CARNATIONS ale everyw here re
ported.
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