Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-05-31
World of La Dor.

I1ttSburg ponce want IN per cent. IN
crease.
St. Paul's Building Exchange refuses
to recognize the BuluIng Trades Coun-
ell.
Denver lumbcrmcn are on strike and
tie-up of the building trades may
result.
Kensington phladelphia) carpet
workers are about TO strike for higher
/ wages.
New York plumbers and gas filters
will receive $f.25 Il day, commencing
July /,
The cornerstone Of Brooklyn's new
labor lyseum will he laid on Decoration
| Day.
Toronto (Canada) bakers COM
| promised their strike on % cents per
| hour and a ten-hour day.
| f. r. Schmitz. the labor mayor OF
San Francisco, says he is not Il candi-
date for governor.
Pittsburg's MAY day strike is said to
have Cancelled $24.0G0,0OO of proposed
new building operations.
Strikers on the Great Lakes have
1
| on the cooperative plan.
The Cleveland IRON molders secured
an increase Of IS Per cent. in their
wages by the recent strike.
| Pulpmakers and laborers Throughout
the country, numbering 1000 have Sc
cured an increase Of ) per GEM.
\ strike is on IN the electrical bulb
factories whose employees are members
! of the American Flint Glass Workers
Union.
The Continental Tobacco Company,
of st. Louis, has given notice to its
5000 factory employees ir st. Louis of
Il 10 per cent. increase Of wages.
Los Angeles (Cal) union labor men
will nominate candidates for city Of
fees in the December election. The
street car men are organizing there.
Efforts are being made to induce
Congress to pass Il bill establishing q
government type foundry. The Inter-
national Typographical Union is re-
ported to be taking the initiative in
the matter.
There are in Toledo, Ohio. nearly
| 2,1G0 laboTcrs ont Of work because of
| strikes and loclnuts. but in most cases
because O. a refusal on the part of
! local capital to grant demands for
| higher wages made upon them.
In Detroit, which IS admitted to be
| the best organized city in the country
so far as street car men are concerned,
| the men at the present time are asking
for an increase in Wages from Il cents
an hour TO % cents. The companies
have offe.ed 22L cents. The matter
has been submitted to arbitration, and
| there is no possibility of a strike.
One If the measures submitted to
| the attention of The Massachusetts leg
islaturt is a bill 10 establish an indus
trial court" 1t IS designed to set up
a court, composed of fair minded and
impartial men, authorized to inVesti-
gate all the facts relating to an indus
| trial dispute and TO decide what shall
| be the minimum work day in accord
anee with tests definitely stated.
Labor and capital shall be regarded as
| partners in production.
| The Central Federated Union OF
Manhattan, n. Y, instructed its law
committee to report on the feasibility
J of making a test case under the alien
labor clause of the State law in the
Court of Appeals. with the view of OBJ
tanning a reversal of decisions in the
lower courts to the effect that the labor
law was unconstitutional in demand
ing preference for citizens over aliens
upon public works 1t is said the APP
peal is to be based upon the assump-
ton of the law making prerogatives of
the State being superior 10 the treaty
making power of the Federal govern
ment.
In Cleveland 4 clause in the latest
franchise granted requires that in case
of dispute the company shall select two
men, the employees two, and the mayor
of the city shall act as the fifth MEM
Der of a board 10 arbitrate all differ |
ences. Another clause provides that |
the men shall not work more than ten |
hours in fourteen out Of every twenty |
four. This rule aboiishes the Swing" |
runs, as the men are assured that they |
will have at least ten hours to them |
selves at al stretch every day instead of |
having two or three turns and not get |
ting more than four or five hours off |
for rest at one time.
The trustees of the Johns Hopkins
University announce that a citizen of
Baltimore has given q sum of money
to the university to be devoted to
systematic investigation of the history /
activities, and influence of labor or
CARNATIONS in the United States. The
sum of $500 is given for the immediate
purchase by the university library of |
additional books, journals, and reports
relating to this subject. The further
sum of $1,000 is made available to meet
the expenses incident to carrying on
the inquiry for the next academic year.
The Investigating will be conducted by
the economic seminary, under the di-
'rection of DR.. J. H. Hollander, asso-
ciate professor of finance. 1t will be-
gin in October 1902, and extend over
such period of time as may be war
ranted by the extent of the inquiry and
the definiteress of the results attained.