Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-12

are women. Several receive over s25o0 ne =
annum, about fifty receive 1850 per an
mum, 100 receive $l400 per anntm 450 ~
ceive 1920, 800 receive 5000 and the 70
mainder receive from $500 to $500 per an
mum.
Glass Workers and the Green Bottle
Blowers Association will this year join in
the wage conference with the manufac-
turers. The flints have invited the green
workers to join them and by acting Joint
ly to strengthen both organizations
After contention of years, the rival
building trades unions in Manhattan and
the Bronx buried the hatchet and organ
ized the United Board of Delegates. 1t
mas sole jurisdiction over perhaps 60 900
union mechanics, and is on terms of the
closest intimacy with the Brooklyn board
Of delegates.
A Pittsburg syndicate headed by c. r.
Bucneit is about to form q corporation
Whicn expects to invest Sl,cI0.GD in Mex
lean timber and agricultural lands. The
land is located near Gomez Farlas. Tam
auiipas The options have been secured.
mills. 1t is also intended to build a rail-
road POO miles long
The English miners eight-hour bill now
before the House Of Commons will in
crease by one-fifth the wages of those
& Mno work longer hours. lower the pro-
duction and increase its cost, and the
measure will actually reduce the working
nours to six and half or seven hours as
Tn tne re, rest OF the time will be sent in going
70 ana coming from the workings in the
pits The chief objection is legal inter-
terence with men.
The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company's
employees TO the number of a00 organized
society 10 be known as the BROOKLYN
Rapid Transit Benefit Association. Sew
efal months ago the railroad company
expended large sum of money on fitting
up clubhouses at the various depots for
their men. The officers of the company
We're empowered to deduct from each
man wages the amount of his monthly
dues. President Jacob L. Greatsinger
was elected president of the association
The referendum vote of the thirty-two
locals throughout the country of the IN
ternational Association of Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers as to the adop-
ton of the universal scale proposed by
the American Bridge Company has been
received with the exception of the votes
of the locals of st. Louis and New York
The votes favored the adoption of the
universal scale. AS soon as possible
President Buchanan will meet with the
American Bridge Company to arrange an
other agreement.
The United Traction and Electric Com
pany of Providence. r. L., has recently
inaugurated a pension plan for it's en-
ployes that gives far greater advantages
than the one inaugurated by the Metro
politan Traction Company, of New York.
visions for pensions for employees whose
service has been less than twenty-five
years, while the Providence system gives
a pension of % per cent for twenty years'
service and / per cent per year for a SER
vice of less than twenty years.
An organization of employers in all
lines of business in Denver has beea
formed to combat organized labor in it's
various demands. The definite aim of
the new association is general opposition
to the trades unions policy. The several
strikes now on in the city caused this
combination Among those crafts which
are on strike are the carriage and wag-
on workers, 100; machinists 80; wiremen
50; fuel haulers, 80: mattress-m makers, 30
The 500 grocery and butcher clerks are
threatening . strike, and nearly 1000 MEM
bers of the building trades will make de-
mands within a month The new associa-
ton is called the Business Men and
Manufacturers Association, and its
members say it is permanent organiza-
tiOn.