Waterbury Democrat., 1902-12-20

forward the same to the state govern ment next week. The report will show
 amined during the year. including
 those in all of the larger cities of the
 state. The board has been successful since it's inauguration and a great help 1 to the barber business.
 Chicago potato pealers have organ
 ized union and start off with mem
 bership of POO. They will endeavor to
 increase wages and regular hours. The
 spirit of organization is certainly l abroad in the land.
 l The committee in charge of the dance 1 to be given by the Bartenders' Interna-
 tional league at City hall on the even I ing of January 30 are already hard at
 work and propose to make grand sue
 cess of the affair The committee will
 hold another meeting on Monday even l ing.
 Messrs Dolan and Wallace, repre-
 senting the striking employees of the 1 Holmes & Edwards factory of Bridge. | and paid a visit to Buffers and Pol
 ishers' local No. 37 and Brasswork:
 ers' local No 186. Generous contribu-
 tions for the strikers was received from each union.
 There will be regular business
 meeting of the Amalgamated Society l of Engineers tonight at 8 D. m. i'll l Foresters' hall, 151 Bank street
 Election of American and Canadian
 councilmen will take place. also other l important business. All members are
 expected to be present. also everyone
 desirous of joining the organization are l invited to be-on hand not later than 1 S:15 D. m. ,E 1 In 1776 bricklayers received 30 cents l for a day of fourteen hours; in 1850, $1.75 for twelve hours; in 1902, 80 1 for eight hours. This remarkable in
 crease in wages, especially in later
 years, is attributed to organization, and shows what a trades union does for l its members. The brieklayers in the
 past ten years have expended $1, 300, ,00O
 for benevolent purposes.
 l The work of organizing the express ] men employed by the great railway l express companies has already begun 1 The men employed on the southwest l ern division of the Wells Fargo Ex- | press Co are the first in line and have | formed an organization whose object
 will be to regain the 10 per cent reduc- | ton made during the hard times in the
 '9Os. It is expected that the organiza-
 ton will extend east and that .eventu- 1 ally all of the employees of the large
 express companies will be bound into
 national organization. It is not generally understood when speaking of the earnings of the miner
 Ill the anthracite coal region, that he l mas to pay out of the said earnings 1 for the powder that is used in blasting. | and also for blacksmithing, oil caps and fuse as we'll as for his tools. Tn addition thereto his laborer, who loads the coal into the car after it is mined receives about one-third of the gross l amount that the miner gets per car. It will be seen that after these charges
 are deducted the miners share neces. 1 sarily must be small. . ;s-> h The Boston newspaper scaa- ui prices Which was submitted to arbitration the past week, resulted in an amicab ble
 agreement being reached by President
 James M. Lynch of the International Typographical union, President Me
 Mahon of the Boston union and Com
 missioner Driscoll of the National Pub
 fishers association. without outside
 parties being called in. The new
 scale calls for forty-two hours Der
 week at 58 cents per hour, or S24. .36
 per week, with overtime 80 cents per
 hour: The scale goes into effect from November 16, the date the old one ex- pired. Another instance that shows
 the benefit of the arbitration plan. Much ado is made by the representa- tives of the corporations as to the dire results that would befall Connecticut manufacturers should the anti-in- Junction and the eight hour bills now ! before congress become laws. The United States does its own printing l and also owns some of the navy yards where it's ships are built and repaired, and it's employees only work eight hours and better results are se-
 cured in this way than by the con tract system. If eight hours is enough for government work in these lines why not in others? And if Con necticut manufacturers can successful ly compete for government work on
 a ten-hour basis why not on an eight hour one.-
 The booklet recently published by the New Jersey bureau of labor sta | ttstics gives interesting comparisons between the wages and hours of labor l of union and non- union mechanics in that state. These facts arc well worth
 remembering and reflect conditions ex- 1sting ill every other state. Bricklay.
 CTS, union, hours per week, 511s; aver.
 age wages per day, $3.8O. Non-union, I 57.4 hours and $2.13 per day. Carpen.
 ters, union, hours per week, 53; aver
 age wages per day, $2.53. Non-union
 58 hours and $2.13 per day. Cigar.
 makers, union, hours per week, 1T,
 average wages per day, $2.27. Non. I union, 54 hours and S1.65 per day 4 Painters a,