The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1900-10-13
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IN THE INDUSTRIAL WORLD.

Laundry workers national union is
talked Of.
Painters Issued thirteen charters
last month.
Railroad blacksmlths Of Winnipeg
have organized.
The Minneapolis beer bottlers have
formed a union.
City Of Mexico cotton operatorsstruck
for higher wages.
Agriculture is to be taught in Mis-
souri, public schools.
England has locomotives that were
made in Richmond, Va.
New York electrical workers demand
- for eight hours work.
y. Brewery workers have thirty-one 10
cal unions and branches in Ohio.
Rochester printers unionized the Of
flce Of the Democrat and Chronicle
The London cigarmakers sent over
$243.6o to their New York brethren.
. .
The whiskey trust has been reor-
ganized and all distilleries are 1t it.
State Federations Of Labor have been
formed in Alabama and South Caro-
lima.
The Plumbers of Fall River, Mass,
are out on strike for an increase of
wages.
OIL and gas we'll workers Of North
Baltimore. Ohio. boast a union 100
strong.
The Galveston cotton mills employing
500 operatives closed down on Thurs
day last.
The Piano Makers union Of Chicago
has increased from a membership Of
300 to $500.
Hawaiian planters are importing
Louisiana negroes to work upon their
plantations
Carpenters union No. % Of San Fran
cisco. Cal. has donated $500 to the
striking millmen.
Sewer diggers of Toledo organized
under charter Of the American Fedora
ton Of Labor
The grievances Of the engineers and
hreinen on the Wisconsin Central have
been adjusted.
The waiter girls of Bavaria work
from fourteen to sixteen hours a dnv.
never get day of. -.
AT Sherman, Tex, trades assem-
oly has been organized, the prospects
OF which are bright.
Wood carvers rejected proposition
to amalgamate with the Amalgamated
Wood Workers. union.
The carpet layers in Manhattan and
6rooKlyn' N. T., were recently organ.
lied into large union.
The Texas State Federation Of Labo,
has applied for charter from the Am
erfcan Federation Of Labor.
The Journeymen BARRIERS union Of
San. Francisco, Cal. is In a flourishinr
condition with zoos names on its rolls,
Another firm In the New York cigar
manufacturers combine broke away
and conceded the unions demands.
me BoOkblnders International Union
Is making an effort to organize the wo-
men In that craft.
large rubber factory to combat the
rubber trust has been opened at Mill
town. N. J.
The American Tin Plate company
has granted an advance of wages of
two per cent to its 5000 employees.
A $l3.VOO,OO starch trust has been
launched In New York. and the Cana
dian stove manufacturers are combin-
ing.
Nine hundred and eighty men We're
thrown out Of work by the shut down
of the American Rod and Nall Mills
at Anderson. Ind.
Schwartz & Co., cigar manufacturers
In New York, have signed the agree
ment- with the Cigarmakers' union and
500 employees have resumed work.
According the report Of the labor
commissioner of New Hampshire, the
shoe output of that state last year was
valued at $22, 900, 900.
At Berlin, Ont. there was not union
man in the city one year ago. Now
there are several flourishing unions
with somewhat over 500 members.
The Sharp window glass factory at