The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-08-03
THE WORLD OF INDUSTRY
Echoes of The Busy Workshop, Mill
and Mine.
THF GOSSIP OF The BREADwINNEUS
Review Of the Weeks Work In Every
Nation on the Globe Where Manufao-
turers and Mechanics Hold Sway.

Machlnists have struck In the East Min
uesotn shops at Duluth. MINI.
There is a great demand for skilled Ia
borers OF all kinds Mt Ogden. Utah.
unlou furnncemen at Culberaon, Ohio.
have received a 10 Dor cent advance.
\ reduction In wages Ia about to be
made by the American TIN rIAte COMPANY
Tenmsters at Plttsburg. PA, are dis
scale.
me International Order Of Railway Cen.
aHGctoFS Is very strongly opposed to gym
holegmokers ut the Iron Mountain shops
at Little Rock Ark, md Memphis, Inn.
are stll on strike.
At Mitchell, h. C.. the miners strike has
been settled, the companies there agreeing
TO recognize the union.
Machlnsts from scotland have arrived
10 take the place of strikers at the loco
motive works az Kingston, Ont.
Chicago ulll stahlemen nave rerct thy
organized they VIII probably stake FOR
better conditions and higher wages
Tho recent award Of Lord James OF
Hereford ms regards English TtncrJ' wages
has not given universal Sd.isfI lion,
street railway employees at Troy n.
r., have settled their dispute WITH the
United Traction company bl arbltratoL.
The dispute as 20 reduction OF - per
cent In. the wages OF Scotch mircr3 has
heeu referred 20 sheriff Jameson, X. c
Freight handlers at St Doils Mo. and
East St Louis, H., will organize aud make
demand for an increase IA wagec
Section men ON the Elkhorn railroad at
Kennard. Neh, have struck for 81 80 a
day. The men have been getting 81 %.
Wages Of Northumberland (Eng) mn, rs
have been further reduced 3& per cent,
under the regulations Of the Cancellation
board.
section hands of the Santa Fe at To.
peka, Kan, struck upon refusal of their
demands for 81 90 day. they now re
| ceiNe 81 %.
Robert Glockling. secretary OF the ON.
tario tCanl Labor Bureau. has been mixed
| TO mediate In the strike OF the VIEWERS
4 at Toronto,
Helpers at the Great Northern mothire
! shops ut Superior. Wis, who recent y
struck for raise from 81 30 TO So a dq.,
( are stlll out,
/ Telephone operators Mt Atchison, Kan,
| girls have been receiving $50 q month, and
struck for $25.
Horseshoers ut Albany, y. Y, have set
/ tied their differences with employers. All
| demands were granted excepting that for
the extra hour ON Saturday,
! Efforts are being made by the National
| hallway Clicks association NJ Toledo,
] Ohio, to secure the saturday half holiday
| during the summer months.
| The longshoremen and marine and trans
| port workers Mt Chicago NJ, have anal
| gamAted and will endenvor to regulate
| salaries aud redress grievances.
| Special committees from the brewers an6
| the Central Labor Council have met late
| ~ In Cincinnatl Ohio, to discuss the so
| lutlon OF the brewery lockout
DEFINITE steps townrd orgarizlng the rail
4 road employees OF Louisville. Ky, Into
branch OF the United Brotherhood OF
Railway Employees have been taken.
| -Four hundred aud eighty thousand, tw,
| and ifty-nine miners In Great Britain wer,
| represented at the recent conference q