Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-05-22
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.Xtile is our leading industry.

Textile is our leading industry.
Chicago hod carriers get 81 cents an
hour
Germany's twenty shipyards employ
GO, 600 men.
Canada $ fisheries employ $4,000 men.
and 1900 schooners are in use.
San Francisco mechanics are agta-
ting an all-night car service there.
indianapolis brcklayers secured their
demand for 80 cents an hour and an
eight-hour day.
Denver painters signed two-year
agreement at $3.50 a day. and will have
Saturday half holidays.
1t is claimed that 1867 central bodies
of labor are affiliated with the Ameri
can Federation of Labor
ST. Louis painters numbering 800.
who wanted an advance from 31La to A.,
cents an hour. compromised on 40
cents.
There are 6,l59 establishments in the
United States, with 1861 acres where
flowers and ornamental plants are cul-
tivated.
Bridgeport. Conn. laundry workers
have started a movement the object of
which is to form a State association for
the exclusion of the Chinese laundries.
The action of the W. B. Conkey Com
pany, of Hammond Ind. in granting
its employees Il ninehour day at the
ca fnpr,nplv ia for ton
hours Is claimed as a union victory by
labor officials in the printing trades.
An international union with 10000
members has accepted woman as
member for the first time. Miss Maud
DennisOn. of Chicago. will he made
member of the United Brotherhood of
Leather Worke and Horse Goods En-
ployes.
The Canadian Pacific Railway au-
thortes have given official recognition
to the Brotherhood of Railway Track
men. The question of wages will be
settled at a conference by Chief Engi-
necr Vantelet, representing the com
pany. and President John II. Wilson,
representing the brotherhood.
The National Stove Founders Asso-
citation will probably grant an increase
in wages to the stove molders OF the
United States. A slight increase was
asked at the joint conference in Chi
cago. There has not been strike
among the thousands of employees in
the associations stove foundres for
twelve years
Connecticut has three mayors who
were elected to office in less than six
months by what is generally called the
labor party of Connecticut. Mayor Sui
Ivan. of Hartford. presides over $4,000
population. Bridgeport has labor
union mayor-Denis Mulvihill. a stoker.
Mayor Stephen Charters. Of AnsOnia, is
union labor man. mechanic.
"One million members in 1905" Is the
slogan of the United Brotherhood of
Railway Employees. The organization
was formed at Rosebury. Ore, Jan. 81,
1901. 1t aims to cover all white EN-
ployes engaged upon steam railroads,
also white ex-railway employees who
have had three or more years expert
ence. The new Los Angeles. Cal. shops
of the Southern Pacific Railroad now
under construction will cost $5OO.O0O
and employ 1900 men.
San Francisco uniOnists are jubilant
over the surrender of Neustadter Bros,
wholesale shirt and overall manufac-
turers. They have resigned from the
Employers Association. which they
were so active in forming. in order that
they might gain the right to use the
Union label. In taking this step they
not only forfeit large sum of money
deposited as a guarantee OF their con-
| tinuance In membership. but. it is I'M
derstood. will pay the initiation fees of
their employees into the unions they
were fighting.