Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-05-15
WORLD OF LABOR.

The Ohio legislature passed a police
and fire pension bill.
Marion, Ind, chain workers won af
| ter nine weeks strike.
| Chicago bricklayers now get - cents
an hour. In New York they are paid
IS cents.
Massachusetts house Of representa-
! tives last week passed the bill making
eight hours the limit on AL city work.
Mr.. Mulock has introduced a bill in
the Canadian legislature providing for
compulsory arbitration in cases of rail-
| way labor disputes.
| Toronto coal drivers have succeeded
in getting their wages advanced to Il
cents an hour for double-team drivers,
and L. cents for single teams.
Florence. Colo. unions have organ
| lied a building association and incor-
porated under State laws. The pur-
pose is to erect a fine tYo-story build
ing for store and laber...neeting uses.
The Philadelphia. United Labor
League lost its American Federation of
| Labor charter. \ new organization.
| controlled by the Council of Allied
Building Trades will probably replace
| it.
! st. Louis tent and awning makers
went on strike few days ago and were
out only one day. The bosses signed
the new scale, which calls for $l5 Il
week for skilled labor and $12 a week
for helpers.
| Toronto iron molderS won in their de-
mands for higher wages without hav-
ing to resort to a strike. and now have
q clear field for making preparations
| for the International convention TO be
| held there in June
Samuel Gompers. president of the
| American Federation Of Labor has
issued circular to secretaries Of
Chicago trades and Federal labor
unions warning them of the danger in
the attempt TO form an International
laborers' union.
i Boiler-makers in the shops of the
Long Island On. " railroad Company
i have been granted an increase of 10 per
Il cent. in wages, recognition of the bust
ness agent Of their union, and the
I unions price and half more for over
/ time work.
Labor organizations throughout
Greater New York are almost a unit in
i favor of the abolition of tariff tax upon
II foreign meats in consequence of the
recent increases in price which almost
place the purchase of domestic meats
81 beyond the means Of great portion Of
the Nage-earning community.
AT the last session of the Kentucky
\ legislature there was passed a child
labor bill fixing the age limit at four
: teen years. Il factory inspection bill
: providing for two factory inspectors.
: the Equalization of Labor day as a legal
holiday, repeal Of the turnpike law, .
= tw,aweek pay bill for miners, and a
? compulsory examination law for bar
) bers.
Racine Wis. has been struck by a
housemaid famine. and the persons who
employ housemaids are puzzled rs I"
: how they are going to overcome the
y condition without doing their own
work. The cause of This state of af-
fairs is the old one of the girls going
L to work in the factories. where they
a can earn 81 or IS a week and have their
evenings and sundays to themselves.
:. One thousand nrolders, pressers,
blasters. and laborers in five brick
!, and terra Gotta works at Cheltenham
near st. Louis. are out on a strike. The
skilled men strucl&put of sympathy
; for the laborers. who demanded an in
: crease in wages Of Is cents a day
= Though grievances are so far confined
to the laborers, officials of the firm
anticipate that the skilled employees
will soon present demands for salary
a increases.
MI The American Flint Glassworkers
nj Union may take 4 step in the annua
II convention to be held in Wheeling il
el July that may be but the first in {
i general movement for the OWNERSHIP
ISL and control of mills and factories b.
al national and International labor OF.
vi CARNATIONS. 1t is proposed, on ac
d count of the impending strike in tn
If chimney branch of the trade. to us
a the money which would be paid out il
= strike benefits in erecting factories t
p give employment to the strikers. TIL
Id suggestion is the outgrowth Of tn
II threatening trouble with the Gimme
ari trust The possibilities which it un
* folds are limitless. and they Nigh
n web claim the attention of students {
rs economic conditions. The new scale {
he the A. f. G. w. L. for the chime
rt branch does not go into effect unit
September 10, but a fight seems IL
mt egitable, and both sides are preparing