The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-10-05
THE WORLD OF INDUSTRY
Echoes Of tie Busy Workshop. Mill
and Mine.
THE GOSSIP OF TIE BREADwNNFRs
Review Of the Week's Work N Every
Nation on the Globe Where Manufac-
t1rers ard Mechanics Hold Sway.

New York city hus 10000 organized
waee-workers.
The sanitary employees at Santiago, Cuba,
struyk recently.
At 0ttumwa. Iowa. the electrical strikers
hare won their Gght.
Striking weavers at Toronto, Canada,
have declared their strike on
Fishermen at San Francisco Cal. have
taken stets to fern union.
The South Wales Miners Federation mas
a membership Of 10000.
IL lakes the constant labor OF 5000 peo-
pie to make matches for the world.
LtaYenworth lhan.l miners have agreed
with tac operators Oh a wage scale.
Cement. concrete anu tile workers OF
Memphis, Tenn. have organized unlon.
New York taliors who went OIL strike Ia
1886 were fined for demanding higher
wages
ii Is estimated that there are over 1000
nniOu electrical workers In North America
Jacksonville (Fia) carpenters demand m
eighi-hour day and 80 cents an hour mini
Sheet metal workers at New Haven,
Conn. have made demand for an Increase
Dur6am tEngIand miners are agitating
for, the parliamentary representation OF
trade unions.
AL the present time the Order Of Rail
way Conductors has membership Of more
Factofy shoemakers at Manchester. y,
a
their schedule OF wages
The strike OF the union telephone line
men at New Orleans, La, ms now been
AT Los Angeles. Cal. the Sbinglers' union
has advanced the schedule OF wages, TO
take eject October l.
The union has been recognized and an IN.
crease in wages granted the striking coal
miners at ottumwo. Iowa.
minimum wage Of $3.50 week has
been attained by the union OF Hardwood
fiuisherS at Indianapolis, Ind.
Labor troubles that have been pending
among the marble workers at Gouverneur,
An Increase Of 20 per cent has been
granted the marhinisiS OF the Atlantic
Coast Line In the Florence. $. G.. shops
New York brickluyers received 90 cents
a daY for fourteen hours labor Ia lTld.
They now receive $3.50 for eight. hours.
Hsikhi ri nndl labor unions VIII organizes
wage scale and shorter EOurs.
Indications arc thai organized labor viii
take up the cause Of the indianapolis, Ind,
hremen in their claim for Increased pay
The Nationni congress OF French miners
Is discussing Important mining problems
including the question Of n general strike.
The Bridge and Structural Iron Workers
union Of the United States held secret
convention ~ milwaukee, Wis. recently.
The pit lads revolt IN YORKSHIRE, England,
has ended az the colllcrles near Normantou.
An advance In wages has beeu conceded TO
the lads
at Boston, Mass, IL was deSided that tile
union should support legislators who favor
labor measures.
Niaehinsts at Racine. wls,. are on strike
In support OF demand for a niuphour day
lt is expected that concessions win be
made 10 the strikers.
Journeymen tnllors at New Haven, Conn.,
who recently formed a union. will probably
strike IL a demand Is not met for a mini
mum rate OF 81 day.
II Is almost an impnssibility to get men.
either skilled or unsklned. for the logging
Mime
readily be given for hundreds
II Is stated from Saratoga n. Y,
hudson Valley railway, which has been In
force four weeks may be officially declared
Members Of the painters union at Los
Angeles Cal, decided TO present demand
70 the bosses for $3.50 day Of eight hours
strike.
All efforts having failed 20 settle the teie.
phone linemeu's strike 40 salt Lake city,
Utah. the men win eudeavor to extend the
strike all over Utah and into Idaho aud
Wyoming.
Among the working women In Belgium
there are 10000 who earn less than 80 cents
day. Only 1000 earn more thnn 30 cents
and only 395 more than 40 cents day.
Iron m0lders az Providence. r. L. have,
struck because their demands that Il mini.
mum rate Ot wages be made not less than
S2fa, ana that pleceWork be abolished
whore not ncccdcd 60.
The management OF the Portland Me
street railway has been netitioned by ali
motormen aud conductors employed by the
comnany for au increase In wages from
At Buffalo. ~ Y. compromise has
been reached between the moiders unions
and the employers, through which the
molders VIII receive after October / So 50
day, m increase Of 10 cents.
The strike Of miners at Pendlebury, Eng.
land ended recently the men resnmlng
work on the old terms. pending a settle.
meut The strike has lasted eighteen
swscccnlSs aud has cost the federation over
TIC federation Of workmen OF Porto
Rico. will send seven delegates 10 the
next convention OF the American Fedora
ton 81 Labor. They are being backed by
the 1ldptels. who EXPECT AID us to coffee.
II Is believed that the only solution Of
the question Of labor for plantations In
Honolulu Is the limited immigration OF
Chinese laborers for leld purposes and
under such restrictions us congress might
see NJ to iunose.
Auother General strike has been pro
CLAIMED In Spain; this time at penia.
Ships left the port because II was limos
sible to discharge them. In these dispSfes
politics have much to do; they are not
Unemployed natives in the rebel district
Cape tColony, have become a serious prob
n neia Hne@ nSye squ9Tnhgsred {ner pay an'
tutes.a menace in the districts where they
are found
A strike OF 1000 miners Is threatened al
the Morton colliery, Durham, Eng. because
OF the dismissal Of n fireman. But before
the men cease work other sections are to be
consulted, so that it is possible a strike
may be ayerted.
Master plumbers at Kansas City, No.
unable to reach q settlement with theil
men recently donued ovcralls and them
selves filed the places OF the strikers III
is believed. however that the trouble wil
be settled by arbitration
II is said that q system Of pieceworlz hai
neen decided upon by the Johannesburg
South Africa, chamber Of mines as n mean,
Of attracting native labor to the mines II
Is thought that this policy viii az lensi
nelp 10 solve the labor problem.
The greatest labor trouble IN Jamaica
seems 10 be the want OF men for agrlcul
tural purposes. The negroes can mike any
thing from 2s day upward but thei
that they only work four days n week.
mon taiiors have gone out on a strike ol
account OF the refusal OF the merchant tail
ors to grant an increase In wnges deniande,
~ the union men. Efforts are being mad
10 compromise the differences.
United Stntes Commissioner or Iabo
Carroll ID. Wright predicts a losing Fight fo
the peDnsylyania anthracite coal miners
Ibis conclusion IS based on the long inve,
Ugaflon OF conditions In the anthrnrit,
folds, which resulted IN the commissioner
formal report to President Roosevelt
Because 81 the fact thnt the shipbulldin
trade Is steadily growing worse the IN
erated employers 81 the Tyne Wear Foo
md Hnreloop have notified their emnlove
that they nre obliged TO reduce WAGES
Ainliar ratification IA the early part of IN