The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-06-08
THE WORLD OF INDUSTRY
Echoes Of the Busy Workshop, Mill
and Mine.
SOME GOSSIP OF THE BREADwINNERS
Review OF the Weeks Work in Every Ma
ton on the Globe Where Artisans
and Mechanics Hold Sway.
rhere arc 72.e2s minors in Mexlco.


Michigan postal clerks have organized.
BARRIERS in Holland receive about So a
week.
The labor trouble at Moscow, Russia, has
been renewed.
Holland ,sIch) tannery employees will
form n union.
Laundry workers at New Haven. Conn.,
will organize.
Labor organizations at Bangor Me-, VIII
form central union.
Wages Of Durham. England. miners have
been reduced ~ per cent.
Striking bricklnycrs at Wichita. Kan,
have returned TO work.
Canadian labor unions are demanding con.
trnct foreign labor laws
II Is estimated that i.4T5,Oo0 persons are
employed In the worlds mines.
weeks work for women aud boys in
New Zealand factories is limited to forty
hvc hours,
Textile industries in America cmploy 90.
o7S wage carners, at an average oil k''l'
a week.
Brooklyn ~. W union bakers hope to
stop work In all bake shops not recognizing
their union
Eight hundred shpyard mechanics Mt
Port Richmond. $. l., have been granted au
advance In wages
Union men ut Duluth. MINI. are at odds
with the city officials for employing a
nonunion painter
Stationary steam engineers and electrical
WORKERS helpers Of Albany, ~ Y, have re
Gently organ acd.
Children are barred from working - In
thirty one cmployments in Germany. The
new law went Into effect May |,
Laborcrs and masons' helpers at Science
tadS, y y, have struck for uniform
wage Of s. per day
Glcns Falls. y. y, lime aud cement work.
mon demand an advance In wages ana
recognition Of the union
Wages of agricultural iahorers in Mexico
arc extremely low, averaging IN some dis
tricts, only IS cents per day.
Memphis (TcnnJ union carpenters are
trying to Interest the nonuniun workmon
% that city In united labor movement
MaehlniSts Of the ri. -Four system mny
strike as the result Of the compauy's r2
fuSal 10 Immediately grant a wage incrcnsc
Two hundred and nifty miners at Prndlr
bury. England, struck last week the dis
pute being on the question II packing au1
drawing timber.
Striking tenn drivers AT Quincy, H. arc
holding together and the other unions are
giving them moral and substantial support
Two thousand men In pits belonging t.
the Lewis McrthY, Wales, RETAINED from
work because twenty men are nouunion
lists
Russian and other miners are being en-
ployed In English coal mines and an agitp
ton against their employment is being con
Sidered
The San Francisco (Cat) board Of polio
commissioners has passed n resolution tc
ducing the work day Of patrolmen to eigh
hours.
Two thousand drivers and conductors en-
ployed by big Chicago express compauic
have received n 10 pc cent advance /
their wages.
Strikes called in Chicago hereafter witt
ont mature, deliberation with tho Feeders
ton OF Labor or its officials will not he /,
dorged by that body.
The employees Of the Grand Trunk raj
why freight sheds at Toronto, Canada ha'
been granted an Increase In their waS
of from to 10 per cent
Nonunion lumber handlers quit work
Buffalo, n. V They wanted an lncrca
In pay Of from $50 to Si,T1 day and Il
wage scale to be Uniform
Hosting engineers at indianapolis, Inc
although organized hut n month ago. hn'
already secured an increase of 10 cents
hour, making their pay 30 cents.
The strike amprE the ice wagon dtive
at Detroit, Mich, was quickly settled. II
n'cn secured wage scale VI St3 per WEI
for the summer ana ST. for the winter.
The National CNorthcrm Textile nssoci
tlon, which stirred UP the trouble In \
rrStn, Ga. failed To help the striking op,
atives, and many OF thom have return
To- work.
Street car mn In Oakland, san Jo
Sacramento aud utEcr cities Of Calitolr
suit Of the successful street car strike
san Francisco,
New Zealand hes purchased zone OF I
largest coal mines IN that country. A *
tIrSt was being formed and the Eovcrume
came forward with public ownership as {
remedy.
The Federated Trade council Of portlAr
orc, has decided TO give tho building ira
strikers financial aid, aud there seems
probability of an early settlement OF
strike.
uuion bakers of Denver, Coo, huve W
their strike They will receive the IN
hour for lunch and 10 cents more for ov
time They agree TO recosnize the Mas
Bakers association.
Leaders of the Western Federation
Miners and Western Labor union have
clnred for socialism, and propose to fo
organized labor political parties in all
Western states
The arbitrator appointed by the board
trade to inquire Into the painters strike
Darlington England, for an advance oi
cent an hour has decided that the II
have no case.
New York hricklayers have signed =,
tact With tho Master Builders associate
the terms OF which provide nu increase
$50 per week In the wages of journeyn
members OF the union.
Senator Hanna aud Samuel ,Gompcrs hi
Joined forces to prevent Il strike June