The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-12-14
THE WORLD OF INDUSTRY
Echoes Of the Busy Workshop, Mill
and Mine.
THE GOSSIP OF The BREADwINNrRs
Review Of the Weeks Work In Every
Nation on the Globe Where Msnufso-
turers and Mechanics Hold Sway.

creston QowO stonemasons are stiil on
strike.
scarcity OF lumbermen is reported at
Ottawa, Canada.
Union picture frame workers are on strike
at Chicago.
There are $50 mines and 1900 miners In
the State OF Indiana.
The strike Of Old Town Cwash) sbingle-
makers has been amicably settled
A FINAL settlement Of the brewery lockout
at Cincinnati. Ohio. Is shortly expected.
Every member OF the Horseshoers' union
at indianapolis. Ind, Is at present EN-.
ployed.
Marine cooks Of Buffalo have applied
for charter from the international sea
mems union.
Tue New Hampshire state Federation
Of Labor has recently been In session at
HE Bricklayers international union VIII
meet IN Memphis, Tenn, the second Mon
Inc sixth annual convention Of the Ten
nesscc Federation Of Labor Will meet In
Nashville Monday. December 10.
Al indianapolis. Ind, the Retail Clerks
uliOn Is strongly urging upon the mer-
chants 70 agree 10 shorter hours
Laundry drivers at Kansas City have
formed a union. Candy makers and coal
wagon drivers VIII also organize.
The Iron Wonders International union
expects to establish a National niae-hour
work day, 70 begin January i, 1913.
cumdea tMol ueayers. have struck Tor an
equalization Of pas. Day hands receive
$50 and piece hands want the same.
Aouiders al NcwplrEA Fl-uEiN and
Walden a. g., have begun o strike Tor o
uiue-hour day and recognition ~ tbe union
On account ~ tho bad harvest iU Norway
the government has grautcl Sis"o 70
farmers for the purpose at buying seeds.
TIE bitumluous coal miners contributed
100000 ~ aid the striking anthracite
miners. Assessments ceased au Nofcn-
beg Is
At San Jose, Call the newspaper writer's
have formed O union under O ,l"rter from
tie international Typographical union.
Fr1u krupp hos given SI'o3F" 20 estAh-
ush O benefit FUND for cine worhmcn ~
Essen, Prussia, iu memory " ltf late hrs-
band
In the province Of Quebec Canada. there
are 81 labor prEui zAtions three tonrins
Of the number being Do the cities of Mon
trtl!l and Quebec
BIN posters Recently in session at Chica.
20, H., discussed the matter OF a uu.ver
sal wage scale and the organization OF q
National association.
Fawtucket r. l. cigarmakers and trades
and labor unions have instituted boycott
against the cigar and tobacco store Of the
alleged trust.
There is a demand for mechanics IN Cape
Colony FOR skilled platelaycrs In Natal and
Tor first class building trade employees Ia
Electrical workers al san Francisco. Cal.
have satisfactorily adjusted dlffcrences
with Their employers over the new wage
scala OK the union.
American aud Hawaiian hsckmen have
crganlZed q union. one Of the objects be
ing 20 prevent any but American citizens
from procuring licenses.
Gas teatnsters at Chicago, III, have gOni
out on strike. il is declared that the entr'
National union OF 10000 members will sup
port the striking men.
After going on strike, 500 female en-
ployes OK the Limerick, Ireland, Arm
Clothing factory. paraded the city cheering
singing and ringing bells.
Plans are on foot for the erection Of
labor temple IN Topeka, Kan. Each Of III
lpboF unions In tie city win be represents
ON the board OF directors.
labor leaders IN Switzerland arc maxim
great light against the new Swiss tan
law, which. Il ls believed, VIII greatly IN
crease the cost OF living IN that country.
The railway trnekmcu OF the Unite
Etutes aud Canada closed q weeks sossio
in ST. Louis. Mo-. recently, u Is state
hist tho organization Inns n membership q
10000.
Conferences nre being held between len,
ers OF the Knights OF Labor representa-
ynrlous factions for the purpose OF reuul
Ing all memDerR Of the order in Create
New York
In accordance with m agreement mad
over year ugo, the wages Of union typ
HDttcr8 utility men md proofrcQder5
Milwaukee, WIS, will be $40 week II
Al Topeia. Kan, the Santa Tc monng
ment has announced that the wages OF q
the employees IN the pl0uing mil OF n
road viii be Increased from l2l5 to II cent
nm hour.
Tho British trades union delegates TO tn
country have unanimously determined
establish IN Great Britain a civic fcder
ton similar TO the National Civic FEEDER
tlon OF America.
All the telegraphers on the Wisconc
Central railroad at Fon Dn Lac, WIS, ha'
been granted On increase In salary amour
ing to 50 a month for every empoye
that department,
at Cripple Creek, Colo the employees
the Denver and Southwestern have made
request for an increase In wages DO
sides seem TO be anxious 10 adjust matter
and there Is no talk OF strike.
Union electricians nnd DYNAMO operate
IN the employ Of the Chicago city Sire
Railway company want shorter hours al
an Increase I'm wages. They are now wor
Ing thirteen hours for S2.2J.
Employees IN the transportation dopal
ment OF the southern Railway are iublla
over the renort of an increase TN snlnrit
On or about January the salaries VIII
Increased by about Sl,ANooO0,
Union paper box workers ~ san Fra
cisco are on strike 10 enforce demnl
contained IN the new wage schedule Of q
union. which calls for an increase Of p
ranging from 20 to - per ceut.
Terrence Flynn Of the Tallors' union al
a member OF the Mosely labor commissi
TO this country, says THE workman
this country is IS per cent better or thj
the workman In England"
Stringent orders recently Issued by 4
government regarding immigration fro
Mexico VIII cut on almost entirely Il
importation by the farmers OF Inuisial
and Texas Of any more farm labor fro
Mexico.
Siberian convicts at the settlement
Alexandrosk have gone on n strike, refusl
nourlshment until more humnnely treatt
The convlcts are mostly educated men u
dergoing sentence for political ofeIises.
Personal opinions expressed by over
trades unions officials In Ontario, Canad
recently, would seem TO indicate that ~
untary arbitration Is the most popular
Canada in the settlement of lnhos disput,
A hght Is expected ia Cincinnati On
between the foundrymen and the corema
ers, the former having refused 10 meet Z
representatives. OF the Ccremakers' Int,
national union on the question Of appre
tees
The Kingston (ontario) Mschlnlsts uuI
viii take steps e. enforce the alien lnh
'aw IN the cases OF the German mochinis
wao recently arrived to take the place
the strikers at the Kingston locomoti
works.
According to the officials OF the Natlor
Association of Blast Furnace Workers, ia
association WIFI, on May !, serve notices
ali blast furnace operators throughout /
country that eight hours viii constitute
DAYS work.
AZ Asheyille, n. C.. IN electrical UNI
workers strike IS immincnt. The union
demanding 81 50 d daY for new linen
aud 81 per day for old liucmen. Al prese
most OF the liren1en ara earning ~ 30 4
day. Both sides appear determined to b,