The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-03-10
Industrial Votes.

The strike of the diamond polishers
in Amsterdam is still on
The city government of De Soto, Mo,
has agreed to hire none but union men,
After two years of effort, the workers
in the paper mills at LOckpOrt, N. Y, are
to organize.
The elevator boys of Boston have or
ganized and start off with a membership
of eighty-fve.
Labor organizations of Cincinnati have
increased from ffty-five to eighty-o1fe
during the year.
Labor men at San Pedro, Cal, have
nominated city ticket to be voted for
in the April election
Over one-third of the manufactured
goods which are made in France are the
products of female labor.
School teachers and insurance agents Of
Shenandoah, Pa, are hocking under the
banner of trade unionism.
Boston printers are willing to work for
SIS a week in book and job offices if an
eight-hour day is granted.
Journeyman bakers of Boston find a
friendly feeling among employers toward
granting them an eight-hour day.
At Decatur, ILL.,, the painters have gain
ed cents per hour, bricklayers 10
cents and nine hours, without strike.
A $S50.O00 sugar mill, to be paid for
out of the proceeds of convict plantations
is to be built by the state of Texas.
The weavers of the Dundee mills,
Hcoksett, n. H, are out on a strike
against % per cent cut down in wages
Thirty steel manufacturers of Great
Britain are said to be planning a com
bination. The capital is said to be $780,
600, eco.
Four thousand ship and iron workers
have now been on strike in San Francis
co for over seven months for a nine
hour day.
Mill and laundry workers of Oklahoma
City are organizing and holding open air
meetings for the benefit of the union
label.
All city work in Cincinnati is now done
on the nine-hour basis, and cfgarmakers
have gained the nine-hour day without
strike.
The carpenters of Norwich, N Y, have
per hour They formerly worked 10 hours
for 81 per day.
The clerks and the Federal unions are
gaining III membership in Texas. The
city of Sherman has agreed to recognize
the nine-hour law.
The demand of the building laborers of
Boston for. 80 cents an hour is likely to
be granted by the Master Builders asso-
citation without strike,
The officials of the American Fedora
ton of Labor are considering the publica-
ton of book with fac-similes of all the
UNION ldD6IS.
The executive council of the American
Federation of Labor is likely to ANAL
gamate the rival brewery workers unions
in New York city.
The direct legislation bill in Massa-
chusetts is indoTsed by more than 800
unions, comprising membership of more
than 100000 workers.
John Lambert, of Joliet, ILL.,, former
president Of the American Steel and Wire
company, is interested in a new steel
plant to be built at Joliet
The Masons Tenders unions of this
city has system of graded
fines for all members working under the
schedule of . cents per hour
The Transfers Of Kankakee Ill. have
organized and the painters and deeorat-
ors have received an increase of Is cents
per day without strike.
The London war office has placed on
order in Switzerland for 100000 pairs of
boots, the contract TO continue three
years, amounting to 100000 pairs.
Another textile mill for Huntsville. Ala.
IS now said to be an early probability,
making three or four new mills for that
place in the last year or two.
Rival trade assemblies in Denver. Col.
are at war with one another, and all eff
forts Of an arbitration committee to eff
feet a settlement have been in vain
On and after March 1 the wages Of
road will be advanced % cents per day
and that of the brakemen Is cents per
day.
A movement is on among the building
trades councils of Massachusetts to place
q statue of the late Gen. Benjamin
f. Butler in the state house grounds.
Employers connected with the chamber
of commerce and board of trade at Wa
ter1oo, Iowa, threaten to discharge all
employees vino affiliate with labor organ
izations.
The cigarmakers CT Porto Rico have
gained 81 more per 1908 without strike.
The briclxlayers, carpenters and painte rs
of the island have Organized during the
past month.
Organized workers in illinois are en-
deavoring to have the machinery re-
moved from the state penitentiary In