The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1899-02-18
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Journeyman bakers hold their
tenth convention at Chicago March s.,
1899.
The cigarmakers have organized
twenty-four ward clubs in Chicago
whose duty it is to boom the union
label.
Carpenters of Des Moines, Iowa, ex-
pect TO inaugurate an eight-hour day
on April /. The new scale calls for
80 cents per hour.
The Painters: Union OF Denver has
asked for an increase of wages from
50 so to So per day Of eight hours, to
take effect March 1. 1t is said the
contracting painters of that CRY will
make no serious opposition to the de-
mand.
All the employees of the National
Mallea'ble Iron company of Toledo,
Ohio, $50 men went on strike recently.
The trouble arose over the discharge
of workman by the foreman because
he was two minutes late in the morn
ing.
Organization is booming in Toledo,
Ohio. photographers, stereotypers,
bookbnders, bindery girls, paper rul-
ers and storekeepers, sewer, bricklay-
ers and a non-par1isan independent
cl,rb of union men have all been or
ganized within the past two weeks,
while the Toledo Typographical I'm
ion has levied an assessment of 25
cents per member to be used in fur
thering the allied printing label.
Ex-Organizer Calvin of the l. T. U.
in San Francisco, went to the Philip
pines as a soldier, and is now publish
ing union newspaper there, called
Uncle Sam
A call has been issued for the sec
ond biennial convention Of the Order
of Railroad Telegraphers, to be held
in Peoria, Ill.,, Monday, May Is, 1899.
Shoe lasters of Elgin, ILL.,, are OH
strike because of the discharge of one
of their number.
The Wisconsin labor commissioner
is carrying on a strong crusade
against child labor in the state. Since
September 1, no less than 300 children
under the ages of II years have been
taken out of Wisconsin factories by
the labor commissioners representa-
tives.
The BARRIERS Union is probably the
only organization in existence that re-
fuses to recognize the lazy members
of the craft.
There is big strike on of cigar
makers at Tampa, Fla, the workers
demanding higher wages.
\ great crisis is brewing in Bel
GUM. \ strike of miners is to take
| pace shortly. \ manifesto has been
issued, the National Federation Of
Miners stating that the strike is in
evitable owing to the irreconcilable
attitude of the employers and their
distainful refusal to enter into nego-
tiations with the men. Between 25u,-
900 and 100000 will be affected. An
| English paper says the government is
! already preparing with police and
militia to take hand in the struggle,
and it is quite likely that stirring
events will be witnessed IN the little
kingdom.
Dock strikers in Colon won their de-
| mand for an increase of 25 cents a
day. At Panama they are also win
ming. In the Argentine Republic.
strikes have taken place recently.
most of which were won, and in Cuba
all kinds OF trouble has been occur
ring between masters and men. The
Latin Americans are rapidly becom-
| ing civilized.
The textile workers of Augusta. Ga,
have sent out agents to solicit funds.
They tell narrowing tales of the stu
alton in the ''cracker state .nere
are 1000 workers out resisting a re-
duction Of 10 to 25 per cent. and hum
| dretls have been elected from COM
pany houses and are camped under
tents in the streets and subsist upon
soup. Their average wages were $3.50
week before the strike, and if they
u lose similar reductions will be made