Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-03-08
The World Of Labor.

America has $1,000 women cigar makers.
The American Federation of Labor has
1OO0,0U members.
The brick makers of Georgia and Ala
bama have organized.
There are now 1414 wool manufacture
ing plants in the country.
The Pittsburg Plate Glass Company's
profits for the year were $1,503, 63S.21.
Engineers and firemen on the Illinois
Central demand an increase in wages.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company is
planning $7,000,000 depot al Cincinnati.
The Sheet Metal Workers National Al
Nance is n new national labor organiZa-
ton.
The Wool Oil Chemical Company will
build plant at Savannah, Ga, to util-
ize refuse lumber. 't
Organized workingmen of Grand Rap
ids, Mich, are planning the erection Of a
trade and labor council.
Woman is crowding man out of the Chi
cago stockyards and even is taking his
place in the use of the k-.i-e.
The subordinate locals of the Iron
Moulders' Union of North America have
voted down proposition to increase the
number of apprentices.
The Pittsburg Stove and Range Com
pany VIII erect a central plant at Beaver
Falls at the cost OF about $30O000. The
new industry will employ from 500 to 1000
men.
The application of fifty colored mus.-
clans for charter from the American
Federation of Musicians has caused a
stir in the Chicago Federation of Must
clans.
\ Chicago real estate firm has offered
to build a labor tempe in the down town
district if the unions will guarantee the
rental for a certain length of time.
The strike inaugurated by the Boston,
Mass, teamsters, is spreading to other
cities of New England notably Fall Riv-
er and Lawrence, big manufacturing
centerS.
The House committee on labor of the
national congress announces that hear
ings for the consideration of the eight
hour bill will begin on March . and oc
cupy total of eight days.
The brick layers of Pittsburg, Ale
gheny, and Braddock, will formulate
new wage scale. 1t is understood that an
advance will be asked for over the eight
hour day at 80 cents per hour.
Harmony between the 1900 union paint
ers of Chicago and the Boss Painters AS
ISOLATION is assured for two years, ali
agreement having been signed for that
length Of time. dating from March l.
Plasterers employed on a twenty-five
story building in Pittsburg, Pa, struck
recently against walking up and down
stairs in their own time, and were grant
ed one hours pay per day for the time
thus occupied
While the Allis-Chalmers Company of
Chicago, and the striking machlniSts are
carrying on bitter warfare against each
other, secret nt ! citations are gradually
bringing the two parties to the contro-
Versy nearer together. ,-
IA wage scale of 81 for a work day Of
eight hours is demanded throughout
nv m a
Painters, while members of the brother
hood unions work nine hours daily for
wage scale ranging. it is said, from So
to S2.J0 Il day.
At Nanticoke. Pa, 5000 union mine
workers have given 200 nOn-uniOn men
until MaTctl . to join the union. Two hun
dred mine tirenfen there nave received an
increase in wages of ! cents per houf
This is said to be the first increase since
the general strike nearly year ago.
Politics will be effectuaiIy barred from
tho Chicago Federation OF Labor if the
proposed amendments to the constitution
are adopted, 1t says: This federation
shah not indorSe any candidate for politI-
cal office, either elective or appontiNt-
The old constitution only forbade the III
dorsement of political parties, but did not
apply to individuals.
The Carpenters Union of Syracuse, has
made formal announcement that, bes al
ming April l. all it's men VIII be expected
an hour. making the schedule 10 cents,
and the boss masons have been notified
OF n similar advance in the scale of wages
for the maspns. which raises their sched-
ule from 45 to 30 cents an hour
All tobacco factories in the PHILIPPINES
are working night and day, and over 2
10000 cigars are on the ocean on the way
| to the United States. 1t Is asserted IN
| the trade that by the middle OF Marcn
over aO.o00o00 cigars from that part Of the
world VIII be consigned to this country
| 1t will have n very significant bearing on
| the interests Of American cisarmakers.
Workmen in the building trades al1
| awaiting with interest the result OF tnl
| request of the Chicago BrickiayelS Unllr
| for an increase of wages OF 10 cents az
hour. II is openly said that the contrae'
| tors are willing to pay the advance IL ms
| bricklayeTs will enter into an eXcluslN,
| agreement. which means that members OF
the union will work for no contractor OF
| property owner not member OF the NJ
| son and Builders Association. The brick
| layers now receive so cents an hour. Pres
! ident Gubbins is paid $1,000 a year and eX
| penseS.
| Two-thirds of the various trades o
! Baltimore demand an increase OF wage
to take effect May /. In more than twent
| cases the employers have been notlHe,
| and in several instances they have con
ceded the demands made. Among tn
| leading trades to adopt new scales are
Tin. sheet iron and metal workers, VIII
| ask $40 in wages for a nine-hour Work
day. with time and a half for overtim
and double time for Sunday work. Brick
layers will insist on 40 cents an ho1l
Plasterers have raised the scale from
to So. 80 for day of eight hours. WoVe
wire and metal fathers have adopted a
a thousand scale. instead of $l.I5. Shout
the demands of any of the allied union
be denied il will mean a general strike, q
| the various unions have pledged them
selves to stand BY their fellow workme
| in the fight.