The Saint Paul globe., 1902-02-17
Industrial Notes.

/ re,Ii,l IeIe are over $500 unemployed in
| eight-hour day al
Cincinnati school teachers are to or.
game union.
!. Carroll d. Wright urges the incorpora-
| uon OF trade unions.
The AnaWam mill. at Fail Rivar has
4 Deen sold to M. G. Borden.
DenVers plumbers strike is over The
wage scale is $425 a day.
| ~ az on the Chinese cooks has been de-
| clafed by the Denver unions
A general strike of all lob printers il
| bdDSof, Me, has been ordered
! EnSlne drivers on the Lake Shore road
nave asked Tor an advance in wages.
Lake seamen are agitating the question
q DeLter wages during the coming season
Union carpenters of Boston and vicini-
/ ty have decided upon a minimum pav
| Of 50 a day. Pay
The Labor Federation has indorsed the
ojxt9llcemen's Protective Association of
Nearly 5000 men are at work On the
! site OF the Worlds Fair ground at St.
a ladies' auxiliary to the American
! Baltimore.
The Brotherhood of Railway Employees
VII VII establish permanent headquarters Ia
Over 1,5oo garment workers joined the
summer iiis me iast
sixty-five cigarmakers of CRANKY. Que.
went on. strike. against reduction i'm
4 wages last week
The American Steel Trust has bought
/ one Scotch steel concern and is negotiat-
4 Ing for others.
The Lynn, Mass, Central Labor Union
| IS about to start cooperative Laundry
Association
Fall River, Mass, weavers insist upon
/ q n 10 Of N1TcC H.,
/ schedule of 1900
The supreme court Of Minnesota has
upheld the validity of the anti-blacll-
| listing law of 1896.
The state of Texas is about to under
| take the manufacture Of cane sugar by
convict labor.
substantial increase in pay has been
granted the telegraphers Of the Norfolk
& Western railroad.
The Santa Fe railroad will spend S13.-
| the present year.
The National Building Trades Council
| has refused to commit itself to the doc
| trines Of Socialism.
The Santa Fe railroad has discharged
| about 2G0 white laborers, and employed
! Japanese in their stead.
The Independent glass manufacturers
have issued a circular saying they are
ready for a price war.
A bill has been introduced in the Mas
/ ton day half holiday.
Street railway employees at Wheeling,
| w. Va, demand an increase of wages
| from 10 to 70 cents an hour.
A movement is reported Of the combin
alton of the leather board manufacturing
plants in New England.
Maryland labor organizations will try
to abolish child labor in sWeatshops
through state legislation.
A state federation of labor is to be or
ganized in Washington, to be affiliated
with the national federation.
Every craft in Gloucester, the famous
fishing port Of New England, has organ
ized either a labor or trade union.
The Cigarmakers' international union
is devoting a good deal of time and
money in the hunt for counterfeit labels.
Ten national banks combined on Jan.
l. Workingmen are not the only ones to
realize the value of organization.
Paper manufacturers in Wisconsin
threaten a six months shut down in case
of strike threatened by the employees.
Pittsburg Pa, capitalists will erect a
new steel plant at Norfolk, Va, in order
to get nearer the shipping interests.
Troy has twenty-seVen factories where
cellars. cuffs and shirts are made. They
employ $4,000 persons, four-ffths being
women.
,rhe workers IN the wooden mills at
Seneca, n. Y, are on strike for an in
crease Of one-fourth Of cent per yard
IN wages.
The National Boot and Shoemakers'
union has organized sixteen big factories
in the month Of September, gainging 700
members.
The short supply of coal cars is wor-
rying the operators in the knoXVlue,
Tenn. district. Several Of the mines nave
There is being erected at Manchester.
N H. what is claimed Will be when fin
ished the largest single building ever
Preparations for the substitution of
women for men as dining car walters are
being made by the Denver q Rio Grande
over 900 bartenders in Massachusetts,,
Rhode Island and Connecticut have Or
ganized under the banner OF the Federa-
ton of Labor.
Philadelphia labor men have caused the
arrest Of two clothing manufacturers Tor
the fraudulent use of the Garment Work
The New London. Conn. board of trade
is urging the municipality to purchase
the street railways and the gas and cleo
tric company plants.
Coremakers connected with Youngs-
town, Ohio, foundries have organized, and
already secured an increase in wages
averag ging 81 a day.
Union labor cards held by the retail
stores of Nashville. Tenn. have been TAX
en- up because of the employment Of non
New South Wales is closely following
New Zealand in the attempt TO substitute
compulsory system of arbitration for
strikes and lockOutS
The American Typefounders company
has increased it's stock from $4O00,000 TO
G,000,GG0. It was originally formed with
a capital Of 100000.
Careful Investigation shows that New
England leads the tailoring trade of tire
world so far as clean workshops and fair
working conditions go
The Rhode Island Ice trust is having
its first labor troubles. The cutters are
on strike against a reduction Of wages
from S.5O to 81 day;
tor fiTr7ac orn he r-Tffn gp
Iona where the machinists have declared
a strike. Riots have caused loss of lie
and destruction of property.
Grand Master Sargent. of the Locomo.
tive Fire1nen. says he hopes and believes
that so far as the firemen are concern
ed l., the days Of strikes are over.
The United States government has or
dered the construction Of twenty-one
steamers and revenue cutters in Oriental
ports They will be built by coolie labor.
A So, 000,000 shoe factory has just been
at Torren. Mex Workmen
from BrocktOn, Mass, will teach the ma
uyes how to operate machines
Union carpenters Of Spokane. Wash,
demand 45 cents an hour for eight hours
work after May /. The new scale Is an
advance of cents an hour
Albert HILBERT, Of the United Textile
Workers, Is to visit all the trade unions
OF the South and investigate the cause OF
recent labor troubles in that section.
The bakers in the eastern section Of
the country are pressing their demands
for ten-hour work day. At present
many are required to work from twelve
to fifteen hours.
The Trades and Labor council Of Que
bee is urging on the provincial govern
lnent the establishment Of a bureau Of
labor statistics, similar to the Ontario
bureau Of labor
The first meeting of the big steel trust
will be held Feb II. Successors to eight
retiring directors will be chosen by the
votes of over 10000 stockholders.
New York has 1881 labor organizations
with a total membership of 261,52 men
and 1858 women. Of this total Of 276,11
trades uJ1ionists 174022 are in the city Of
New York