The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-04-20
THE WORLD OF INDUSTRY.
Echoes of the Busy Workshop, Mill
and Mine.
WHAT THE BREADWINNERS ARE DOING
Review of the Weeks Work in Every Ma
ton on the Glove Where Manufacture
crs, Mechanics and Artisans Toll.

Clinton (Mass) master builders have
granted an e,ght-hour day.
Blddeford lAeJ carpenters have made a
demand for nine hour duy.
The fathers and plasterers OF Colorado
Springs are on n strike for higher wages.
The hftl annual convention Of the West
ern Labor union will begin at Denver on
Monday, May 70.
The 10 per cent advance has gone into
effect in all New Bedford cotton mills,
henehtug 2OOOO operatives.
Lawrence lMdss.J hostlerS and teamsters
are otganIzlng aud propose TO demand
shorter hours and more pay.
me Junior drug clerRs of Pennsylvania
nave organized and locals have been formed
in PittsDurg and Philadelphia
The Portsmouth "a. H. striking painters
nave resumed work. They VIII get eight
hours after May l and S2.25 u day
Indiana labor unions have begun an agl.
tatlon against the chainmaSlng work done
IN the State reformatory at Jeuersonvile
The masons and bricklayers Of Fall River,
MASS nave postponed their proposed strike
anu accepted eight hours after May ).
Three oil the largest cities in Connecticut
now nave labor mayors-Hartlord, Ansonia
ana Budgeport-and all are able orators
Inc common council OF Rockville, Conn,
voted to make the working hours Of CIV
laDoiers nine hours instead OF tea, as here
toforc.
"Busheimen." the Journeymen tailors VIA
| DO the alteration work In the Offices of thc
most fashionable Chicago tsilors, nave
formed a union
The 1000 structural iron and bridge work.
| rrS OF Flttshurg viii he granted an Increase
OF 20 per cent and an eght.hour day after
The brotherhood Of Carpenters and Join.
'IS IN Philadelphia are arranging for a con.
cerlcd move looking TO an increase in ,,,s,,o.
aud shorter hours. ""s''
The san Francisco Labor council has
| submitted TO the board Of supervisors an
ordnance for the maintenance OF free omen.
air concerts 80 NPeN
The conductors and motormen Of the
Nohhecurut Railway and Lighting com.
pnny lines In Norwalk, Conn. viii ass
t ,'I an increase IN pay from 1874 cents an
rive hundred building laborers emplovod
on the new Lake Shore and Rock island
Ialroau depot are on strike They hive
. oSen getting % cents an hour and demand
The 10 per cent Increase Of ouo pnoda
island operatives means only & ner cont he.
cause the new hfty-elght-hour law coes into
enect ms week. Heretofore sixty hours
/ nave prevailed. "'N'
AT the York, Pa, rolling mill raisa =,
. cents ton In puddlers9 wages viii -, 10 o.,
euect April 10. This raise viii MAKE nIis
uItrs wages $40 ton, the HIGHEST 80
ever palu III the York mill
~ IN enort Is being made. hacked h, ~.
NSuopal Building Trades Council ~ nee'
! "a 10 concentrate the energy and Interest,"
/ "a an the allied building trades ana ioeei
| ganlzation "e central or
re threatened strike Of the Iptarnat,o,.
AZ paper laDorers az Bellows Fails W bas
/ o u,, sSerted and arrangements were mnSs
Win the Mill managers whereby rho '4 AZ
| enelseu employees were taken baGk ana III
quTstons involved held IN abeyanca as
| Ihe building laborers of PToyiinoco u
| a., nave oemanded Of contractors MAJ -, -,
,ne hrst or May DAYS work FOR nla ~ W
ghd mat the rate OF paw shall be- 60 ~ III,
~, ~, IN case refusal Is mot Win tS'
- me 200 freight handlers In Prov,denc.
~ J.. employed by the View yort ",
~ ~ ven ana Hartford railroad have forvo,.G
81 Wfitten request 10 tho cornnsnr " t,.,,
ss9'e ~ wages he lncreased 10 cents IA ny y
- anu reply is asked for slim" ~ "
sbigsard eF'lle'i $40, smployed AT Lewis NIXON,
s.lhe escsasc NJ ent from 90 ale on
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