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Newspaper
The Labor Argus
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1908
Page
4
Miner Mucklow from W Va argues for stronger mine safety laws. He critiques gas and coal dust dangers and urges replacing officials with pro safety miners. He asks air ventilation questions and warns governors to ban naked lights and powder shots.
Representatives of the National Civic Federation urged President Roosevelt to advocate revisions to the Sherman anti trust law. Organized labor demands the act clarify it applies to trusts only and cannot be interpreted to regulate labor organizations by courts.
SE RTUISBY, LOCAL NEWS. The Capital City Trades Assembly will meet in regular session Monday evening at the Maccabees Hall above the 6 and 10 cent store. Delegates should attend as several questions of importance to organized labor will be discussed.
Printers Pickups and Columbia Typographical Union No 101 workers at the Government Printing Office petition Acting Public Printer to urge Congress to raise Mergenthaler and Lanston machine pay to 60 cents an hour. The February Catholic Forester carries the union label. publisher Philip J McKenna is noted for not having the label on his paper. Delegates to the August International Convention in Boston are vigorously contesting the election among the printers.
Open shop tactics in Los Angeles forced tailors to face lockout by bosses allied with the Citizens' Alliance. Union workers were told to drop the union or lose jobs, while imported nonunion tailors refused work as demonstrations spread. Some firms later accepted union terms and rehired workers, signaling renewed pushback against antiunion practices.
The International Typographical Union nominations list President Lynch 326 votes and Huspeth 60, Vice President Hays 304 and Reed 17, Secretary Treasurer Bramwood 387 and Crowley 56. AFL delegates elected four: Morrison 311, Hayes 243, Steven 300 and McCullough 146, Gottlob 120, Kennedy 115. Labour Argus notes its unique state coverage and urges subscriptions.
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