The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-04-27

OF that country They are best organized
In the bookbinding, textile and tobacco
trades.
The truck drivers and tcamsters Of al.
bany y. Y, recently organized, have form
ulatcd certain demands. which they VII
present to their employers on Monday, April
2S The men will demand an iucrcas OF
wages, according to the following schedule:
Twelve dollars n week for drivers Of teams.
$40 a week for drivers OF single horses, ten
hours to constitute a days work wi h
double price for overtime The employer
are understood to he bitterly opposed TO
granting the demands
The Carpenters union Of Tampa, Fla,
has inaugurated an eighthour rule, ana
fully half of the contractors in the city re-
fused to aCccde to the demands thus made
Thus several hundred men have been
thrown out OF employment. All Of The
labor unions In Tampa are backing the car
penters In the inauguration of the Gig t.
hour system, and trouble of considerable
nature, II Is said. will follow II the demands
are not granted. The contractors declare
that they will not grant them.
All the kntters in the mills at Lite
Falls, \. Y. numbering several thousand,
will 20 on strike because of differences in
the wage question. The Knittcrs' Union re-
Gently asked knit goods manufacturers to
increase their pay from Sis 10 Sl.3l per
day. Two years ago the same demand was
made and refused by the manufacturer
The knitters were then uDorganlHed, Tut
today their union is a very strong one. The
porting the kntters,
The utmost confidence prevails at strik-
crS' headquarters at Olneyylllc, X. l., thHt
the result Of the strike in the mills OF the
American Wooden company will he success
full for the weavers The leaders who are
mt work among the employees OF the com
pany's mills In other cities say that me
weavers are being organized rs never be-
fore. Those even In the Independent MUS
are forming unions, the leaders say while
weavers In the American Wooden company
who have organized have had their wages
raised, or will get increases where they
have been working for 10 and 20 per cent
below the standard.
The failure of the movement to stop pro
duction in the Washington mills. Law.
renee, Mass, coupled with the reporter
gradual Increase IN the number OF looms
In operation in Olneyyllle. Il. l., and else
where brought out the statement FROM
leading min offcial that the strike against
the American Wooden company has been
broken The strike leaders look upon the
disappointment caused by the Lawrence
weqNcrs with little concern. Secretary
O'Connor of the Textile Union, says that
rs there are $500 viewers now out in OIL
NEVILLE. Ftchburg. Blackstone, Pascoag
Plymouth and Webster, the strikers post
The dispute between the Britannia metal
smiths OF Sheffield England, and the Mas
ter SilVersmlth' association mas cone 30
head. The men gave In their notices 10
three films IN me first instance This step
was met by the associated employers CIV
ing notice TO all their society mon. Nearly
30 workn1en, Or about tNo-Ihlrds OF INC
whole Of the trade are thus far under no
tice. aud both ldes appear determined e.
Fight the matter out. The masters are -ais-
ing y guarantee fund 10 assist small en-.
plovers To ioiy IN resisting the demands OF
The men for Increased remuneration. The
Master Silversmiths' association declares
that higher wsges, however, are not the
real object In dispute, the great question
being the freedom Of employers 70 take
apprentices. that freedom having been e.