The sun., 1898-05-29

to have all the produce OF a locality takel
to centre for disposal.
Denver bakers new scale exacts tina
foremen shall receive at least SIG week
second hand not less than $l4, thirt
hand not less than Sl2 and apprentice, o
which there must be only one in shop
S.. Jobbers are to get S3 a day o
night. The International Union donated
$500 as war material before the battl,
began. The working hours are Limited
to ten.
The electrical contractors of Toledo
have signed the scale as presented b,
the Electrical Workers Union, which
provides for an eight-hour workday anC
a minimum wage scale, and to show
their appreciation of the action the mem
bers OF the union held an open meeting
Monday night last, to which the CON
tractors were invited. A supper was
served and the visitors entertained in
various ways.
The Toledo Press Assistants and Feed.
ers Union las established the following
scale of prices, which it is endeavorine
to enforce: Press assistants, $l2; first
class feeders, s.; second-class platen
feeders, $6; platen helpers, one press,
IS; two, $40; three, Sl2; four, $3.50;
web press helpers, $40. These prices are
for a week of 20 hours. -Four dollars
and half to 81 are the wages that gen.
orally obtain for feeding now.
At last Sundays meeting of the New
York Central Labor Union Delegate
George H. Warner who is on the Labor
Exchange Committee, said that they now
had shoes, hats, cigars and many other
artic.s for sale there, and that fair
would be arranged for the benefit of the
exchange. Delegate Eugene johnson, of
the Manhattan Musicians Union, com
planned that the franklin Association of
Pressmen had hired a place in Coney
Island for picnic, and that onl y nom
union music was played there.
A peculiar feature about the parade of
1000 strikers at Oshkosh, Wis, on Mon
day last was that the procession was
headed by brass band paid ior by the
manufacturers against whom the strike
is directed. 1t came about in this way:
Mayor Ideson is secretary Of the Paine
Lumber Company, the largest sash and
door concern in the world. When, as the
city's executive, he was asked for per-
nit for the parade, he suggested band
and subscribed $40 toward it. Other sash
and door men made up the balance.
Rochester Post-Express printers
struck They ask minimum scale Of SIS
per week for machine operators, eight
hours to be days work, overtime to be
paid at the rate of IS cents per hour,
floor men to be paid SIS a week, eight
hours to constitute a day and overtime
to be paid at the rate of 45 cents per
hour; one apprentice to every five men
in the office to be allowed, apprentices to
be allowed to operate machines only dur
ing the last three months of their ap-
premiership. In relation to the employ
ment and discharge OF men the last man
employed to be the first man laid off.
"Writing to the principal Eastern
cities which rank as equal to or higher
than Denver" says the owner of two
theatres at Denver, 81 find that while
we pay S25 for a stage carpenter, they
pay SIS to $50; while we pay Sis for an
assistant carpenter, they pay about $l2;
while we pay 81 night for night hands,
they pay IS cents; while we pay $20.50
for musicians and $2S for leader, they
pay $25 for a leader and SIS for nusi-
clans. The only wages which is any.
where near as high as ours is that for
leader The cities to which | wrote are
St. Paul, Minneapolis, Louisville, Gin
cinnati and Detroit
The Executive Council of the Ameri-
can Longshoremen's Union has been
given full authority to bring about the
closest possible arrangement between the
Union and the National Union of Dock
Laborers in Great Britain and Ireland,
and also the International Federation
of Ship, Dock and River Workers in
Europe, so that longshoemen on both
continents may be III a position to take
united action to protect and defend them
selves from injustice and oppression.
President McHugh said that it was not
intended to order any strikes of long
shoremen, for the workers in England
had better scheme to resist reduction
and to obtain an advance of wages, and
that was simply by giving quid pro
quo. Ii employers reduced wages, the
workers, instead of striking, would
simply do less work, just in proportion
to the amount of wages reduced.