The Saint Paul globe., 1902-11-10
ECHOES OF WORKSHOP,
MILL AND MINE
Review of the Weeks Work of Every Ma
tion on the Globe Where Artisans
Hold Sway.

Brewery workers at Fresno Cal. have
| organized.
! Skilled labor is in great demand at
! Kansas City, Mo.
| Metal spinners throughout Connecticut
are organizing.
| Birmingham. Ala, trades unions will
1 erect labor temple.
| Standard wages for painters in Eng
] land are SO a week
| Policemen at Omaha, Neb., have se-
| cured an eight-hour day.
| Commercial teIegraphers at Columbus,
| Ohio, have formed a union.
| Embalmers and funeral directors at
| Chicago, ILL.,, have formed a union
| Iron molders at Beaumont, Tex, have
| asked for an increase of 20 cents a day.
| There are about 100000 members of
| the Miners Federation Of Great Britain.
| Port Huron Mich, Trades and Labor
assembly will establish a labor library.
! Union paperhangers at Cincinnati, Ohio,
will ask for a 20 per cent increase in wa
| ges.
| An amicable adjustment of. the tailors
| strike at New Haven, Conn, has been
reached.
| OF over 100000 women employed in the
| German industries, less than 5000 are
| organized.
Carpenters and joiners at Breeon, Eng,
| Grocer clerks at Richmond, Va, will
| organize with the intention of demanding
| shorter hours.
The Union Labor party Of Queensland,
Australia, has elected twenty-four mem
! bers to the legislature.
Two thousand spinners are on strike
at the textile mills near NeWry, Eng,
| for an increase in wages.
The right of combination in Germany
| iG o1lqr9nfaad hv law. .hllt farm iaDOr6rS
do not possess the right.
A bill will be introduced in the next
Massachusetts legislature looking to the
| incorporation Of labor unions.
The German government has provided
| by ordinance for the importation to Sa-
| moa of Chinese contract laborers.
Overworked seamstresses in Berlin are
to benefit by a legacy of $685. 900 left by
a German bookseller named Balm.
| The Western Federation Of Miners
! may erect building at Denver, Col, for
the use of the federation in that city.
! Seven thousand fishermen on Puget
Sound have organized a trades union.
chartered by the American Labor union.
] A Milwaukee, Wis, tobacconist has
| been fined $35 and costs for using the
union label on cigars not made by union
| labor.
San Francisco as telephone operators,
| for the accommodation of Chinese mer-
| chants.
A movement for semi monthly pay
day of city employees has been fndorSed
| by the Quincy, ILL.,, Trades and Labor
| assembly.
Canvassers in Ohio and Indiana will
| organize a labor union. The pioneering
of the new union is being done at In
dianapolis.
| Differences between brass buffers
and polishers and their employees at
| Watertown, N Y, will probably be set
| tied by arbitration.
Four hundred thousand men are en-
ployed on hand looms in and around
Lyons, France at an average of 60
cents day of eleven hours.
Authorities of British Columbia have
| benefit of the numerous lumber and
| mining camps in that province
No strike of bookbinders at the gov
ernment printing office at Washington,
! D. c. Is contemplated notwithstanding
reports to the contrary.
Painters in the employ of the board
had their pay increased from So to So. so
a day, and laborers from 81 to $3.50.
| The president of the Monon railroad
| has appropriated $500, besides the
grounds for a Y. NJ. G. A. building near
| the railroad shops at Lafayette, Ind.
Metal polishers and brass workers in
the employ of the Western Gas Fixture
company at Toledo, Ohio, have been
granted a nine-hour day, with ten hours
pay,