Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-02-22
The World of Labor.

o'he' ONO, has women street
car conductors.
There are 1913 miles of sewers in
Greater New York.
indianapolis has revived the project
to build labor temple.
The French Chamber of IDENTITIES has
adopted the eight-hour bill for miners.
The Cooks and Walters Union of Salt
Lake City. wants higher wages. and
may strike.
The Brewers and Bottlers' Union has
gained an eight hour day at Grand
Rapids, Mich.
Chicago school teachers are making a
bitter fight against the proposed 20 per
cent. reduction in salaries.
San Franciscos mayor recently
elected on the labor ticket, is employ
ing only unionists in city offices.
The cry of "scab" is a sufficient cause
for an officer to make an arrest under
the new police order in Boston.
About $4,000 machinists are now
working under a nine-hour system and
1000 are striking for similar conces-
sion.
The Canadian Pacific Railroad will
build immense locomotive and car
works in Montreal and employ 1000
men.
The coal miners at Broad Cove, Cape
Breton. have struck second time with
In two months for increased wages.
The materials of the Buffalo Exposi-
ton. which were recently sold to a
wrecking company for $132. goo, cost over
IS, 0O0, 900.
The eieht-hour bill for government
work Will not be taken up by the
House Committee on Labor before
March l. 1t is bitterly opposed by iron
and steel interests.
me Montana Federation of Labor, as
well as the state organization of Wis
consin. has decided to investigate
economic questions, with a view to en-
tering the political field.
New Bedford. Mass. weavers who
asked for an advance in wages have
been Informed by the mill owners that
wages paid today compare favorably
with the wages paid as an advance in
1899. A strike Is imminent.
The Canadian Pacific Railway will
not be able to say the trackmen are
not solid. responsible organization
the next time an agreement is asked
for Over 80 per cent. of the mainte-
nance-of-way men are now in the
union.
An effort is under way among Fall
River. Mass, manufacturers to settle
all future wage disputes in the mills by
the appointment Of a special arbitra-
ton committee. composed of manufac-
tuners and representatives Of the labor
unions.
The contracts for the buildings and
equipment Of The new Standard Steel
Car Company. at Pittsburg, have been
let, and the aggregate cost of the big
Plant will be $1,15O,O0O. The works will
cover about six acres of ground on a
site yet to be selected.
During the past year the member
ship of the International Bricklayers'
Union has teen increased by nearly H.
900 members. Very satisfactory agrees
ments governing wages and hours of
labor have been made in cities all over
America.
Representatives Of a number of indie
pendent sheet steel concerns in the
country last week held meeting at
Pittsburg to form an association. The
matter was projected by A. F. Baum
garten, vice-president of the Maryland
Sheet and Steel Company.
The new scale Of wages for the union
brcklayers Of Cincinnati and vicinity
hno hnnv, h.,
employing contractors and builders,
and Is now in practical operation. The
scale calls for Sc cents an hour for an
eight-hour day.
The employers of the Grand Trunk
Railway at Pert Huron, Mich, have
raised $4,000 to establish cooperative
store. where they can purchase the
supplies needed at lower prices. An
order for 500 tons Of coal, on which
they saved Size ton, has been placed.
The ornamental and architectural
ronworkers may return to the Struc-
tural IIonworkers' Union. from which
they withdrew March %. 1901. instead
If forming a national organization for
which plans are being formed. Me-
gotiations are now on for the recon-
Citation.
Employees of the Michigan Central
Railroad have voted down a proposal
for service pensions, the fund to be
largely created from their own wages.
A similar plan presented to the en-
ployes Of the Chicago, Milwaukee. and
st. Paul Railroad by the management
recently was also voted down by the
ruen.
Last Saturday a petition was pre-
serted in the Massachusetts legislature
for the appropriation Of $4,000 for the
New Bedford Textile School on condi-
ton that the sum of $1,000 be raised In
New Bedford. The Lowell Textile
School has asked for a state appropria-
tim Of s2O.OO0: $4,000 to be contributed
by the city of Lowell.
Alfred Mosely, c. NJ. G.. of London. Is
arranging for commission to visit the
United States in the autumn to In
vestigate American Industrial methods
from the British standpoint. He says
he intends to meet representatives OF
workingmens organizations in fve-
siyths of the great staple industries.
The whole of the elected delegates VIII
accompany him at his expense.
The report of the Bureau of Labor
Statistics of New York for 1901, trans