Waterbury Democrat., 1902-03-08
CASH REGISTER BOYCOTT IS OFF.
End Brought About By Civic Federation Board-Nes of the Labor Unions in Waterbury and
 Elsewhere

of the Labor Unlor
 Else,
 French seamen and miners are obliged by law to make provision Tor their old age.
 The demand of Springfield brick layers for an increase ill pay to $4 a day has been granted.
 A regular meeting of Typographical union, No 329, will be held at the Buff fers' and Polishers' hall on Grand street tonight at o'clock.
 The Waterbury Bartenders' union will meet tomorrow afternoon at z o'clock ill Carpenters and Joinefs hall on Grand street. Every member is requested to attend as business or importance will be transacted.
 A bill was introduced in the New York legislature during the past week the purport of which is reducing from 60 to 54 the number of hours minor under IS or q female may work in T factory each week, and providing that they shall not work more than six Lours on Saturday.
 The plumbers. tinsmithS and sheet metal workers of Paterson, who struck last Monday for an increase of wages, returned to work at the old scale of wages: It is understood, however, that the strikers will receive the in crease in the wages from their em- ployerS as soon as present contracts are fulfilled.
 The drivers in the employ of D. T. Hart, agent for the Ballantine Brew ing Company, have entered the local Brewers union. The Brewers union at the present time is in q flourishing condition. The employees of every man, who has the agency for some out of town beer, with the exception of two, are now members of the Brewers union.
 The cutters of the great glove houses at Brussels and ill France earn even higher wages than the cutters of the most fashionable tailors in London and New York. So difficult is the work of cutting gloves that most of the principal cutters are known to the trade by name and by fame, and the peculiar knives which they use in their business are so highly prized that they are handed down from generation to generation as heirlooms.
 M, Buffers and Polishers' union have re ceived notification that there is q strike on among the buffers and pol ishers at the J. L. Mott Iron Works in New York city; also that there is q strike among the holders, polishers, buffers and platers at the Thomas Brass and Iron Works in Waukegan, Illinois. Buffers and polishers in this city are accordingly warned not to ac- cept q position with these concerns. The fourteen painters employed by the Lapalme-H Hoffman company who went on strike on Thursday on ac count of the employment by the above company of d painter, an eX-membel of the Painters union, who refused tC | join the union, have returned to work The dispute has been .amicably ad- l justed. The eX-union member is vii. ling to rejoin the union. Some o1 the painters returned to work yester day afternoon and the remainder re ported this morning.
 1 There were 126 labor disputes il New York state last year from Jan uary 1 to September 30 In these dis putes 649 firms were involved, ant A, ,S23 employees out of 62,536, the mum Der employed before the disputes. O. these 4,S23 employees 22,057 were ac lively engaged in the strikes, while the remainder had no work owing tt the strikes. The causes of the strike! were as follows: 45 for an increase O wages; 31 for reduction in the hour | of work; 27 on the question of union ism; owing to proposed reduction in wages; 4 concerning the method O paying wages and sympatheti strikes. The strikes resulted as fol lows: AS in favor of the workmen B in favor of the employers and ?. were compromised. The workmel won ill 3S9. lost in Ill and compro missed in 150 establishments.
 The difference between the Nationa Cash Register company and it's strik l ing employees was adjusted during tn past week at q conference in Nev York city. At the conference it wa agreed that the two rooms in which tn strike occurred should be unionized Incidentally it might be remarked that owing to the boycott of the Ma tional cash register in this city on of the local druggists has got himsel into trouble. After the boycott hal 1 been declared by the local union tn druggist purchased q National cash reg ister. X committee from the uniol called upon him and asked him to re turn it to the company as no mone, had been paid upon it. He refused t do so and furthermore is said to hay abused the union. Finally the matte was referred to the Central Labo union. The next day, after he wa l boycotted, the druggist sent back tn register. Since then he has lost th patronage of number of union mer who were his customers.
 The following report from the au nual report of State Labor Comms sioner McMackin of New York con tains a good deal of common sense "A somewhat new condition has de yeloped in connection with disputes | fhic state lv tbn nrUani1ot tion If orr