The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1901-01-19


Brunswick, Ga, women have organ
lied federal labor union.
A building trades council is be Or
ganized at Syracuse, N. Y.
The Cleveland firemen cleared over
500 on their annual pail.
Electric mining machinery is being
introduced in British mines.
The American Federation Of Labor
has $40 organizers in the field.
There are 544,233 children employed
in various industries in Germany.
Two thousand workers have been
laid off at Cramps ship yard.
The retail clerks of Scranton, Pa,
hive organized a good, strong union.
Organizers of the United Mine Work.
ers are busy working in West Virginia
Granite cutters recently organized
unions at Columbia, S. c., and Lynn,
Mass.
The total number of newspapers of
Of all kinds published in the world is
48, 900.
The Massachusetts eight-hour law
has been crippled by a recent court
decision. -.
Curtis Brothers., sash manufacturers
of Clinton, iowa, have. cut wages fiji
teen per cent.
A local union of the allied metal me-
chanics has been organized at Dun
kirk, N. Y.
The stationary flremen's unions Of
Massachusetts will hold state con-
vention at Holyoke, February 4, 1901.
The Pictou, N. S., collieries strike
has been brought TO- a close by the
miners receiving an increase of twelve
per cent.
Chicago Clothing Cutters Union
which was practically broken UP after
the strike of 1894, has again re-organ-
lied with 1856 new members.
The International Brotherhood of Sta
tionary Firemen has granted a charter
for a firemen's union in Mt. Carmel,
Pa, also one at Luzerne borough, Pa.
Stove manufacturers of Canada form
ed a $6,000,000 trust and will concen-
trate their business in Hamilton and
Toronto, and close down plants in
smaller towns.
In the time that the Cigarmakers'
International Union has been estab-
lished $4,660,00o in benefits have been
disbursed to the members: through the
| international organization.
The newly elected lieutenant gov
ernor of Colorado, David c. Coates. is
member of Pueblo local of the Inter-
national Typographical Cnion, and is
an ardent trades union agitator.
The strike Of plumbers in the Stock
| ton CEngland) district, which lasted
three months, has been settled, the en-
ployers agreeing to advance their
wages farthing now and another far
| thing at the end of six months, making
| them Sd per hour.
Two new laws became operative on
January LIST throughout France. One
| gives to soldiers free postage for two
letters each month; the other requires
stores to provide seats foC shop. girls.
| An increase to 37K cents an hour has
been granted to the carpenters on the
! Howard electric tower at the Pan
American Exposition. This action
will have the tendency of doing away
with rumors of strike ar2ong the car
penters.
The new plant of the American Axe
& Tool Company, of Giassport, Pa.
the largest of it's kind in the world, is
nearing completion and will commence
operations Feb.1. One thousand men
will be employed.
| Labor Commissioner John r. Smith
has completed census of Colorado
/ and publishes as a result 260 unions
with membership of $1,000.
| The Labor Advocate of Jacksonville
Fla, is making a warm fight against
the Clyde Steamship Company The
company is having trouble with it's
deck hands.
1t has been charged before the Fed
eral Industrial Commission that ir
most of the great cities of the country
the plumbers union and associations
of contractors have combined so as tc
monopolize business and practically
fleece those who have plumbing done
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