The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-11-16
Echoes Of The Busy Workshop, Nil
and Mine.
THE GOSSIP OF THE BREADwINNRRs
Review Of the Weeks Work In Every
Nation on the Globe Whore Manufae-
turers and Mechanics Hold Sway.

an increase in salaries.
Ten per cent Of English trade union ship
builders are out Of work.
Railway clerks have organized union
at New Haven, Conn.
The Southern Pacific will probably give
its engineers an increase in pay.
An early settlement of the painters strike
at New Haven, Conn. is expected.
At Canandaigua. n Y. lnborers are very
scarce, in spite Of offers Of $3.50 day.
British coal mining industries show In
creased employment OF 10 per cent over
that n year ago.
Union Pacific yardmen at Omaha, Neb,,
have made a demand for an Increase Of .
cents an hour
Glass trsies have improved somewhat
In England tho men being better employed
than year ago.
Molders at Cleveland Ohio. nre on strike.
They demand an increase Of wages Of 10
to IL per cent.
switchmen of the Colorado and Southern
have been granted an increase, amounting
to 11i5 per cent.
-Four thousand delegates attended the
recent union convention OF railroad en-
ployes Mt Springfield, Mass.
II has been announced by the printers at
PortlniSd Me. that nine-hour day will
60 into effect on January /.
Striking telephone linemen at New Or
leans. La, have lost their strike. the men
accepting the terms offered
French coal miners earn % cents day,
while the cost Of living is rs high ms in
the PENNSYLVANIA coal fields.
Woodworkers Mt Joneshoro, Ark are on
strike in support Of a demand for n 20
per cent increase and fixed scale
number Of Paris Frnncel theater and
music hall managers have yielded to the
demands Of the striking musicians
A movement is on foot to bgng the
Brotherhoods Of Engineers, Conductors,
Firemen and Trainmen into closer working
relationship
Coal chute men at Moberley, No, whose
business 1t is to lotsl and unload cars
have struck. They demand an increase IN
wages.
Street car men at Atlanta, Ga. viii on
December I receive voluntary Increase
In wages amounting to an average Of near
" 10 per cent.
Tho new wage contract OF the broom
makers in Milwaukee. wis. has been
signed by all Of the seven shops In which
1t was presented
suggestion has been indorsed at Bos-
ton, Mass by which the team drivers of
the United States and Canada shall be
united IN one central body.
At Portland, Ore, members OF the Grain
Handlers union have struck. The strike
Is for recognition OF the union There Is no
dispute as TO wages.
The American Cabinet company has be-
gun the construction Of an industrial VII
lage near its big factory. which Is located
near Tonawanda. n Y.
Labor at Memphis Tenn, is very scarce
at present, particularly on vessels Negro
helpers on the latter were recently paid
as high as S11O a month.
decision granting all the demands OF
the strikers has been reached at Chicago,
III, In the controversy between the rubber
workers and Morgan & Wright.
Retail clerks at Aberdeen Wash. organ.
lied union some time ago. The first step
has been an agitation for early closing,
with every prospect OF success.
Plasterers at Knoxville and Chattanooga,
Tenn, viii enforce demand, made some
time ago, for an eighthour day. The de-
mand viii likely be acceded to.
An Increase in dock and riverside labor
has recently been shown In London, Eng.
land, but there are still 1000 less employed
at present than at this time last year
At Saratoga, y. Y, the strike OF the
trolley employees Of the Hudson Valley rail.
road has been brought to close. the COM
pany granting the demands Of the strik-
ers.
A general convention Of telegraph opera
tors has been called for November %, at
Pittshurg, Pa, when a National union OF
commercial telegraphers will he organ
led
It IS generally believed in railroad cir
cIes Mt San Francisco, Cal. that the cues.
tlon Of higher wages for the tclegraphers
If the southern Pacific will be amlcably
settled
Pete curran, president OF the General
Gas Workers union, has becn nominated
as a candidate for parliament by the trade
unionists and socialists OF Jarrow, Eng.
land.
Ore diggers at the Rorer iron mines Of
the Virginia Iron, Coal and Coke company.
near Roanoke. are on strike The men
are making 81 a day and want a 10 per
cent Increase.
Glass snappers at the National window
glass factory at Montpelier, Ind, have
gone ont on account Of the company taking
on the guarantee ana putting them on
percentage.
The total number employed In the tin.
plate industries OF Great Britain at the
present time IS about 10000 dispute
n the trade led 20 q decline in the mills
It work last month.
Cincinnati. Ohio, foundry men have Ie-
fused TO meet representatives OF the Core
makers International union IN conference
IN the question Of apprentices involved IN
The present strike
Tennessee miners at whltwell and Tracy
City have signed wage scale for the en-
suing year. The coal diggers get no ad-
vance, but the day laborers get uniform
advance OF ID per cent.
Dalrymen AT San Francisco. Cal. are
signing the new wage scale submitted by
the milk wagon drivers. which provides
for an increase Of pay for the drivers from
$50 to $40 a month.
At Atlanta, Ga. the ordnance committee
Of council has adopted a resolution 70 tho
effect that no convict labor Or materials
made by convict labor be used ON the
public works OF Atlanta
AT Denver CoIo the Colorado and gouth-