Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-05-16
In the laboring World.

All the freight conductors and brake
men on the Montana Central Railroad,
Montana, went out as q protest against
new time schedule.
One hundred and twenty-five boiler
men in the Standard Oil Company's
Works. Bayonne, N. J., struck tor an
increase Of wages.
One hundred boss carpenters in
Brooklyn. N. Y, acceded to the demand
Of the United Brotherhood for an eight
hour day at As cents an hour.
Trackmen and section men on the
Central New England Railroad in Con-
necticut and New York struck for $1.50
a day.
Cutters in seven granite quarries in
Maine have struck on being refused
new scale Of hours and wages.
Journeymen plumbers in Halifax.
n. s., struck because they were refused
$2.25 a day.
Sixty workmen on the Delaware &
Western coal trestle at Oswego, N. Y,
struck for higher pay.
Section men on the Tiffin division of
the Big Four. at Tiffin. O., struck for
$1.25 day. which the company refused.
Three thousand stonemasols, brick
layers and stonecutters in Westchester
County, N. Y, struck for an eight
hour day and A cents an hour.
Kerbs. Wertheim & Schiller, New
York cigar manufacturers. applied to
tie supreme SouTt IOT dH 1HJuUCllOH re-
straining striking union employees from
picketing their factory and threatening
n0n-union workmen.
Union granite cutters in Cleveland.
O., were granted their demand for an
eight-hour day and 20 per cent. increase
in pay.
Eleven hundred woodworkers in Min
neapolis. Minn.. struck for an increase
in wages.
Five hundred carpenters and 60 plum
bers in Albany, N. Y, struck for an
increase in wages and an eight-hour
day. The plumbers ask $3.50 a day and
| the carpenters $3.50 a day.
Striking union carpenters in Boston,
: Mass, who ask for eight hours and $3.50
| a day, had their demands acceded to by
| Is firms.
All the union plumbers of St. Paul.
Mimi, went on strike for shorter hours
| and better pay.
1t is said that the Standard Oil Com
] oany now controls the entire output
If salt Of the United States.
Representative Jefferson NJ. Levy
| nas introduced a bill into the House
| 20 repeal the War Revenue act.
Chicago tailOrs. who have been on
strike for two months, have compro-
| missed and gone back to work.
A soap factory at Sheboygan, Mich.
| 1as adopted the union label so as to
place its products to better advantage.
ng IA boxes Of matches; labor buys
| hose matches back and pays $1.44.
A member of the San Francisco Mu-
| sicians' Union has been fined $50 for
| violating the laws of the organization.
The Colorado State Federation of
Labor is investigating the feasibility
| Of leasing and operating a coal mine
| at Baldwin.
The Southern Pacific has abandoned
the plan for establishing a relief de-
partment, owing to the opposition of
he employees.
For the recognition of the union and
| he nine-hour work-day," is the cause
| II the recent strike of 230 brass work
That operators shall at no time With
| 1old more than two weeks wages from
| miners Is a recent mandate expressed
oy the Iowa State Senate.
Not a union bricklayer in North
| America Is now working more than nine
hours a day. and in 100 cities the eight
| lour day prevails among the members
| If that craft.
As a result of a recent vote, the head
quarters of the Brotherhood of Paint
| .rs and Decorators of America have
| oeen changed from Baltimore, Nd, to
Syracuse, N. Y.
The Brooklyn refineries of the Amer
can Sugar Refining Company have re-
| s increasing rapidly as the season of
The warning labor factions of Louis
| Vile, KY, have at last buried the
| hatchet and amalgamated under the
| banner of the Central Labor Union
| Trouble has been continuous for two
years.