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SOUTH CAROLINA.

Charleston.--John L. Kiley:

All trades in this city are pretty well employed. Strike on the Evening Post has been settled with improved conditions and strictly union shop. Women's label league is working to have dealers handle union labeled pianos. We demand the A visit from union labels on everything we can. a good general organizer would do a great deal of good here.

Georgetown.-Joseph N. Alphonse:

Agreement of machinists for 21⁄2 cents per hour increase was signed and after five days was withdrawn by the general manager of the company. This broken contract caused a lockout and several other trades went out in sympathy. Organized workers as a rule have the best of it as regards working conditions. Clerks are organizing. We always patronize the union labels.

TENNESSEE.

Memphis.-Otto Stein:

Organized trades find plenty of work and good working conditions. Employment steady. Coopers won their strike against a local milling comOne new union was organized during the pany. month and we have two others under way. TEXAS.

Bridgeport.-J. C. Phillips:

Every branch of labor busily employed. An all around advance of wages has been secured by organized trades. The unorganized work from one to two hours more per day than the union men. Our state legislature enacted several good labor measures. Clerks of Jacksboro have organized. The union labels are discussed and advertised.

Dallas.-F. J. Geller and R H. Campbell: Organized men well employed particularly the building trades Carpenters secured advanced wages, their increase amounting to 60 cents per

day. This affects 800 men and was secured without strike. Teamsters are organizing with good membership and bright prospects. All union labels are advocated and patronized. Sign painters organized recently and signed agreements with increase and reduced two hours per day without strike. Bakers have signed agreements with 11 shops out of 13 without strike. Stage employes have signed with all summer theaters. Electric ans have 15 men still out on strike. Some very good work was done last legislature in the way of favorable labor legislation.

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Salt Lake.-Daniel Elton:

Although we are making fair progress, consider able work is necessary even among the organized in order to get them thoroughly educated and the unions in good working condition. Three unions of brewery workmen have signed for increased pay and less hours, carpenters have increased wages, and horseshoers gained more wages without -trike. Am trying to organize the cement workers, butchers, teamsters, laundry workers. bakers, and others. Although employment can not be cons dered steady here the year around, yet work at this time is plentiful.

VERMONT.

Newport.-H. P. Sweet:

Organized labor doing well. Everything quiet at this time. The unorganized workers are in a state of uncertainty and work for as low as 75 cents to $1.50 per day. Work is plentiful and all trades are steadily employed. Wood workers, teamsters, painters and freight handlers of this city and wood workers of Barton Landing are about to organize. Rutland.-Philip J. Halvosa:

Carpenters of Burlington secured 25 cents a day increase, making their scale $2.75 a day of nine hours. 500 slate workers are still on strike for nine hour day at Fair Haven; the men are well organized and have already won partial victory as several firms have conceded the point and about 100 men are at work. As a rule the unorganized have to work 10 hour day while the union men work eight and nine and receive higher wages Plumbers are on strike with good prospects of winning as some shops have already signed. Typographical union and cigarmakers are working for the union labels.

White River Junction.-E. D Biathrow:

There are not enough men to fill the demand for labor. Organized labor in good shape. Union men work union hours, while the nonunionist has to work all kinds of hours. The desire for organization was never so strong as at this time. Merchants are stocking up with union labeled goods. Boilermakers and blacksmiths and shop helpers of Lyndonville, machinists, and painters at St. Johnsbury have organized. Central labor union in St. Johnsbury, central labor union at Newport, and carpenters at Barton and Windsor as well as several others are under way.

VIRGINIA.

Clifton Forge.-J. E. Welch:

Employment is steady in all lines. Organized labor in good shape. The unorganized workers can not compare with the union men and their conditions. We are doing all we can to advance the union labels.

Richmond.-James Brown:

Organized labor holding its own and making progress, while the unorganized are still slaving away long hours at low wages. Printers are still on strike for the eight hour day and holding out firm. Employment is plentiful. There is good demand for all union labels.

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ers are asking five cents an hour increase. Organized workers have far better conditions as compared with the unorganized. Employment is steady and plentiful.

Fond du Lac.-Wm. Graessle:

Organized labor in all branches of labor steadily employed. Printers secured eight hour day on daily paper as result of one day's strike. Brewers renewed former agreement without trouble. Organized labor generally working shorter hours and receive higher wages. Printers and cigarmakers are advertising their labels.

Kenosha.-John R. Noble:

Industrial conditions good in this vicinity. All organized trades find steady employment. A law was passed by the legislature providing blowers in factories where polishers and buffers are employed. Good work is done for the union labels. Electrical workers are forming union.

Manitowoc.-G. H. Thompson:

Organized trades have steady employment. Industrial conditions are very good for organized workers. Retail clerks have organized 100 members strong and prospects are bright for a fine union. A general campaign is on for the union labels.

Watertown.-Eugene Killian:

Building trades difficulties which occurred this season have been settled without strike. The bosses declared for open shop, but the men were firm and won. Through the influence of organized labor, the employes at municipal water works plant were granted an increase in wages. Employment is steady. Trade good. Cigarmakers in one shop struck to secure the same rate of wages paid in other shops here. The men are standing firm. The unorganized workers in some instances have very poor conditions. All union labels are agitated.

DOMINION NOTES.

Building trades are well organized and enjoy eight hour day and fair wages. Unorganized men work longer hours than union members. Painters secured minimum wage scale and increase of 35 cents a day after partial strike. Organized labor in all trades in good shape. Through the agitation of the trades and labor council the city has adopted the eight hour day. Electricians and sheet nietal workers have organized recently.

Hamilton, Ont.-Walter R. Rollo:

Organized labor in healthy condition in this locality although there are a number of trades still to be organized. All classes of labor steadily employed at this time. Carpenters secured increase from 35 cents to 371⁄2 and 40 cents an hour and eight hour day without strike. All organized trades have better conditions, wages, and hours than the unorganized. Plumbers and painters are on strike for union shop and increased wages. Lathers have formed a union. Hodcarriers and building laborers are about to organize.

Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.-Ed. Stephenson:

Small numbers of competent British mechanics are accepted by the unions here every spring and find immediate work on full time in the building trades. Unorganized workers are exposed to competition with the impoverished, unguided, and unclassified immigration. This will be minimized this year by the enormous railroad construction and the intelligent unskilled labor will surely advance wages 25 cents a day. Railroad men are so busy they work overtime. All other trades busy, although building trades have been delayed because of late spring and summer. The objectionable feature of punching time clocks in all shops on the Canadian Pacific railroad here has been removed through union persuasion. The men "rested a day or two and the clocks were removed. Conditions of organized labor far superior to the unorganized. All unions have the union shop agreement and are not forced into competition with immigrants. Boilermakers have organized. Federal union, railway employes, teamsters, and others are likely to organize in the near future. There is a much more steady demand for the union labels than formerly.

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At the Minneapolis convention of the American Federation of Labor, the following resolution was adopted: Resolved. That we do hereby earnestly request the delegates to report to their respective locals that "Standard" sewing machines are unfair. The Standard Sewing Machine Company having been placed on the "unfair list" of the American Federation of Labor, after repeatedly refusing to make any adjustment of, or to submit to arbitration, the grievances of the machinists and other metal working trades on strike at the factory of said firm. We further request that all locals give these facts as wide publication as possible, to the end that their members and friends may withdraw their patronage from the Standard Sewing Machine Company until an equitable adjustment of the difficulty be secured.

The convention adopted the committee's recommendation that the President of the American Federation of Labor, furnish the labor periodicals a list containing the names of the machines manufactured by this concern and requested them to give as much publicity as possible. They are as follows:

WASHINGTON, D. C., June 25, 1907.

To All Affiliated Unions:

At the request of the unions interested, and after due investigation and attempt at settlement, the following concern has been declared UNFAIR:

INDURATED FIBRE WARE COMPANY, Lockport, N. Y. Secretaries are requested to read this notice at union meetings, and labor and reform press please copy. Fraternally yours,

SAMUEL GOMPERS,

President, American Federation of Labor.

We Don't Patronize.

When application is made by an international union to the American Federation of Labor to place any business firm upon the "We Don't Patronize" list the international is required to made a full statement of its grievance against such company, and also what efforts have been made to adjust the same.

The American Federation of Labor either through correspondence or by duly authorized representatives seeks an interview with such firm for the purpose of ascertaining the company's version of the matter in

controversy and thus uses every endeavor to secure an amicable adjustment.

After having exhausted in this way every effort to amicably adjust the matter, the application, together with a full history of the entire matter, is submitted to the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor for such action as it may deem advisable. If. approved, the firm's name appears on the "We Don't Patronize" list in the following issue of the AMERICAN FEDERATIONIST.

An international union is not allowed to have published the names of more than three firms at any one time.

Similar course is followed when application is made by a local union directly affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. Directly affiliated local unions are allowed the publication of but one firm at one time.

Union workingmen and workingwomen and sympathizers with labor have refused to purchase articles produced by the following firms-Labor papers please note changes from month to month and copy:

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Clothing.-N. Snellenberg & Co., Philadelphia, Pa.; Clothiers' Exchange. Rochester, N. Y.; B. Kuppenheimer & Co., Chicago, III. Corsets-Chicago Corset Company, manufacturers Kabo and La Marguerite Corsets.

Gloves.-J. H Cownie Glove Co., Des Moines, Iowa; California Glove Co., Napa, Cal.

Hats.-J. B Stetson Company, Philadelphia, Pa.; E. M. Knox Company, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Henry H. Roelof & Co.. Philadelphia, Pa.

Shirts and ollars. United Shirt and Collar Company, Troy, N. Y.; Van Zandt. Jacobs & Co., Troy, N. Y.; Cluett, Peabody & Co., Troy, N Y.; James R. Kaiser, New York City.

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PRINTING AND PUBLICATIONS. Bookbinders.-Boorum & Pease Co., Brooklyn, N. Y. Printing-Hudson. Kimberley & Co., printers, of Kansas City, Mo.; W. B. Conkey & Co.. publishers, Hammond, Ind.; Times, Los Angeles, Cal.; Philadelphia Inquirer; Philadelphia Bulletin.

POTTERY, GLASS, STONE, AND CEMENT.

Pottery and Brick.-Northwestern_Terra Cotta Co., of Chicago, Ill.; Corning Brick, Tile and Terra Cotta Company, Corning, N. Y.

Cement.-Portland Peninsular Cement Company, Jackson, Mich.; Utica Hydraulic Cement and Utica Cement Mfg. Co., Utica, Ill.

MACHINERY AND BUILDING.

General Hardware.-Landers, Frary & Clark, Etna Company, New Britain, Conn.: Brown & Sharpe Tool Company, Providence, R. I.: John Russell Cutlery Company, Turner's Falls, Mass.: Henry Disston & Co., Philadelphia. Pa.; New York Knife Company, Walden, N. Y.; Ideal Manufacturing Company, Detroit, Mich.

Iron and Steel.-Illinois Iron and Bolt Company of Carpentersville, Ill.; Casey & Hedges, Chattanooga, Tenn.; Lincoln Iron Works (F. R. Patch Manufacturing Company), Rutland, Vt.; Erie City Iron Works. Erie. Pa.; Singer Sewing Machine Co., Elizabeth, N. J.; Pittsburg Expanded Metal Co., Pittsburg, Pa.; American Hoist and Derrick Co., St. Paul, Minn.; Standard Sewing Machine Company, Cleveland, Ohio; Manitowoc Dry Dock Company, Manitowoc, Wis.

Stoves. Wrought Iron Range Co., St. Louis, Mo.; United States Heater Company, Detroit, Mich.; Gurney Foundry Company, Toronto, Ont.; Home Stove Works, Indianapolis, Ind.; Bucks Stove and Range Co, St. Louis, Mo.

WOOD AND FURNITure.
Bags-Gulf Bag Company. New Orleans. La., branch
Bemis Brothers, St. Louis, Mo.

Brooms and Dusters.-The Lee Broom and Duster Com-
pany, of Davenport, Iowa; M. Goeller's Sons, Cir-
cleville, Ohio; Merkle-Wiley Broom Co.. Paris, Ill.
Furniture.-American Billiard Table Company, Cincin-
nati, Ohio; O. Wisner Piano Company, Brooklyn,
N. Y.; Krell Piano Company, Cincinnati, Ohio;
Derby Desk Co., Boston, Mass.
Gold Beaters.-Hastings and Co., Philadelphia, Pa.; J. J.
Keeley, New York City; F. W. Rauskolb, Boston,
Mass.
Lumber-Reinle Bros. & Solomon, Baltimore, Md.: St.
Paul and Tacoma Lumber Company, Tacoma,
Wash.; Gray's Harbor Commercial Co., Cosmopolis,
Wash.

Leather.-Lerch Bros., Baltimore, Md.
Paper.-Remington-Martin Paper Co., Norfolk, NY.
(Raymond Paper Co., Raymondsville, N. Y.; J. L.
Frost Paper Co., Norwood, N. Y.); Potter Wall
Paper Co., Hoboken, N. J.
Wall Paper.-William Bailey & Sons, Cleveland, Ohio.
Watches.-Keystone Watch Case Company, of Philadel-

phia, Pa.; Jos. Fahy, Brooklyn Watch Case Com-
pany, Sag Harbor; T. Zurbrugg, Watch Case Com-
pany, Riverside, N. J.

Wire Cloth.-Thos. E. Gleeson, East Newark, N. J.; Lindsay Wire Weaving Co., Collingwood, Ohio.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Bill Posters.-Bryan & Co., Cleveland, Ohio.; A. Van Buren Co., and New York Bill Posting Co., New York City.

Hotels.-Reddington Hotel, Wilkesbarre, Pa.

Railways-Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad; Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company. Telegraphy.-Western Union Telegraph Company and its Messenger Service.

D. M. Parry, Indianapolis, Ind.

Thomas Taylor & Son, Hudson. Mass.

C. W. Post. Manufacturer of Grape Nuts and Postum Cereal, Battle Creek, Mich.

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FINANCIAL STATEMENT.

Following is a statement of the receipts and expen es for the month of May, 1907. (The months are abbi viated thus: j, f, m, a, m, etc.)

Balance on hand, May 1, 1907.

1. Trades assem Schenectady, NY, tax, J, f, m Central trades council, Mobile, Ala, tax, jan, to and incl dec, '07..

Federation of trades union, York, Pa, tax, j, f, m...

Central labor union, Brooklyn, N J, tax, j, f, m...

Central labor union, Indianapolis, Ind, tax, j, f, m...

$116,385 2.0

Pattern makers league, of N A, tax, j, f, m..
Intl jewelry workers, U of A, tax, j, I, m.
Federal labor 12222, tax, may, $15; d f, $15..
Federal labor 12300, tax, apr, $2.25; df,
$2.25.

Horse-nail makers 10953, tax, apr, $3.65; d f,
$3.65.

Blootblacks prot 10175, tax, mar, $2.85; f,
$2.85...

E. Balouer photo engravers, no 4, Buffalo,
NY, sup..

Egg inspectors 11254, tax, april, $15; d f, $15;
sup, $1

Laborers prot 12476, sup..

Poultry and game dressers 12477, sup.

2. Trades and labor council, Poughkeepsie, N Y, tax, j,.f, m

Central labor council, Seattle and vic, Wash, tax, j, f, m, a, m, J...

Central labor union, Du Quoin, Ill, tax, nov, '06, to and incl june......

10 (

250

2.50

250 7050 9 00 30 00

4.50

7 30

570

1 00

31 00

10 00

10 00

250

5 00

6 67

Central trades council, Meridian, Miss, sup Stone cleaners, pointers, piercers, and light workers 12478, sup..

10 00

1 00 10 0

Railroad shop helpers 12479, sup...

Intl asso of marble workers, tax, mar... Switchmen's union of N A, tax, apr... United mine workers of A, tax, mar.. Machinists helpers 12413, tax, may, $2.10; d f, $2.10....

Trades and labor council, Kalamazoo, Mich, tax, n, d, '06, j.

Trades and labor assem, Aurora, Ill, tax, j, f, m.....

Trades and labor council, Shreveport, La, tax, n, d, '06, J.

9.51 47 00

1,333 97

42

250

2 50

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5 00

288

250

Federation of labor, Pope co, Ark, sup... Central labor union, Petaluma, Cal, sup...... Rubber workers 12480, sup..

5.00

510

10.00

5 00

Central labor union, Parsons, Kans, tax, j, f, m.

250

Stenographers, typewriters, bookkeepers and assistants 11597, tax, mar, $1.30; d f, $1.30...

2.60

Central trades council, Kittanning, Pa, tax, J, to and inclj, '06

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Central labor union, Ticonderoga, N Y, tax, j, f, m...

2 50

Federal labor 11823, tax, mar, $1.10; df, $1.10
Federal labor 10964, tax, f, m, $1.80; d f. $1.80
Railroad transfer messengers and clerks
11639, tax, may, $1.20; d f, 81.20..
Machininists helpers and laborers 12233, sup
Stove mounters intl union, sup.
United textile workers of A, sup..

2 20

Machinists helpers 12394, tax, apr, $1.90; df, $1.90......

6.30

3.80

3 60

Artesian well drillers and levermen 10344, tax, may, $1; d f. $1....

2(0

2.40 54

3 00 63 25

Hotel and restaurant employes, etc, sup....

83 40

Steel case makers 11842, tax, mar, $5.05; df,

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Federal labor 12033, tax, a, m, $3: d f, $3.. Federal labor 12363, tax, mar, 50c; d f, 50c.. Federal labor 9636, tax, f, m, a, $1.50; d f, $1.50 Egg inspectors 8343, tax, J, f, m, a, 83: d f, $3.. Machinists helpers and laborers 12298, sup... Federal labor 7231, tax, mar, $2.25; d f, $2.25.. Federal labor 7010, sup.....

Interlocking switch and signal men 11867, tax, apr, $3.65; d f, $3.65; sup, $3...... Railroad helpers and laborers 11988, sup.. Electroty pe molders and finishers 17, sup.... EH McMichael, Washington, D C.... Moving picture machine operators 12370, tax, apr, $1; d f, $1; sup, 50c...

4. Central labor union, Waltham, Newton, and Watertown, NY, tax, bal d, '06, j, f, m, and acct a, '07.

Central labor union, Bellows Falls, Vt. tax, j, f, m.

Central trades and labor council, Bridgeton, N J, tax, f, m, a..

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5 00

Central labor union, Akron, Ohio, tax, j,

Central labor union, Norwalk, Ohio, tax, a, s, o, n, d, '06, J...

5 00

f, m.....

2 50

Central labor union, Wabash, Ind, tax, d,

Central labor union, Hudson co, N J, tax, apr, '06, to and incl mar, '07.

10 00

'06. J, f.....

2.50

Trades and labor assem, Ottumwa, Iowa,

Trades and labor assem, Belleville, Ill, tax, dec, '06, to and incl nov, '07...

10 00

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Central trades council, Pittsburg, Pa, tax, n, d, '06, j..........

2.50

2 50

Federal labor 12428, tax, apr, 55c; d f, 55c......

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