The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-03-31
Industrial Votes. -

The Rhode Island mule spinners are
to demand 10 per cent more in wages.
A. State Federation of Labor will
soon be organized in the state of Wash
ington.
Engineers and fremen on the Illinois
Central are demanding an increase in
wages.
The boilermakers and iron shipbuild-
erS have increased in membership in the
last ten years from 1000 to $4,000.
The police of Passaic, n. j., announce
that fully half the mill employees of
that city are planning strike tor high
er wages, to start April 1.
The masons of Fall River, Mass, have
started an agitation for an eight-hour
day, which bids fair to involve members
of the allied trades.
Thirty-five out of fifty carpenters en-
rloyed at the Carnegie Steel Works, at
Homestead, were discharged because they
had asked for an increase in wages
A special commission from Washing
ton has allowed extra clerks in the Chi
cago pOstoffice in order that the working
schedule may be reduced to eight hours
The strike of the carpet workers at
ed by the United Textile Workers, and
therefore, the council cannot rec 0gnize
it.
Porto Rico cigarmakers have gained 81
more per 1000 without strike The brick
layers, carpenters and painters Of The
island have organized during the last
month.
The journeymen BARRIERS in HolyoKe
Mass. will go on a strike April l uni aSs
the bosses grant the schedule submitted.
This provides for shorter working hours
each day.
The womens labor unions of Cincin-
natl have declared for the locked out
brewery workers, and are asking their
male friends who drink to patronize only
union beer.
The master Transfers of Gloucester
Mass. evince an indispOsition to grant
the demands Of the local branch Of the
Transfers union for shorter hours and
more pay.
The Carpeters Union of Des Moines,
Iowa. has made a demand for an in
crease in day wages and the Builders
exchange has practically agreed to grant
the advance.
The Barre, VT. Quarrymen's union has
made a demand on the quarrymen
association for an eight-hour day, with
nine hours pay and time and a naif Tor
all overtime
ceiVe an advance in wages. The advance
applies to vest and pants makers and
amounts to or cents on each gar
mept.
The master builders of St Joseph Mo.
have asked the Building Trades council
to disband, on the ground that it is a
trust. A strike IS threatened as the re-
suit of the demand.
Inc wage earners of Manchester, n.
H., one of the great milling centers Of
New England, are to send special com
mittee to the New Hampshire leglsla
tire 10 watch the lawmakers.
The Chicago Federation Of Labor has
appointed a special committee to investi-
gate the age limit problem among work
men, for the purpose of devising a plan
to give old men employment.
In the supreme court of Missouri IN
opinion has been handed down declaring
that courts of equity have no power to
enjoin labor organizations from enforc-
ing boycotts on corporations.
The Belgian minister Of railroads has
announced that employees, with certain
exceptions, may b. permitted to live at i
distance not more than twenty-five miles
from the place where they do their work
The Louisville & Nashville railroad will
erect car building plant at Pensacola.
Fla, at an estimated cost of $500. 900, and
in which several hundred skilled work
men viii be employed.
An International union. with 10000 men,
bers, has accepted woman as a member
for the first time. 1t may also be the last
time. Miss Maud Dennison, OF Chicago,