The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-07-13
in THE LABOR WORLD.
Echoes Of the Busy Workshop, Mill
and Mine.
GOSSIP OF THE BRtADwINNERs'
Review of the Weeks Work in Every Ma
ton on the Globe Where Artisans
and Mechanics Hold Sway.
Rutland. VT. machinIsts are on strike

Masses. Sweden. has womans FIRE de.
partment, $50 strong.
Only union labor will hereafter be enl-
ployed on brick sewer work at Omaha. Neb.
There is possibility OF strike among
the street car employees at Hamilton, Can
ada
a strike Of the Union Pacific machinists
Is imminent unless the road recognizes the
union.
Beginning with July, ali employees of the
city parks at Omaha, Neb., Will receive an
Increase in wages.
The carpenters strike in barre, VT has
been settled The strikers gained their
demands for 50 so a day.
A further reduction OF hands will proba
bly, take place AT the Bcssemer steel works
at Dowlais. Wales
The union labor party Of Alameda coun
ty, California, is to hold county couyen
A new branch Of the British steel
Shelters Amalgamated association has been
formed at Port IaIbot Wales.
Miners at Bernie, d G, have again gone
on strike. They have been working barely
month since the last strike.
Labor unions at Syracuse \; y, repre-
senting about 600 men, intend placing a
labor candidate In the held for mayor.
Union Pacific shops at Evanston, We
are now running full time, with very little
talk Of strike among the machinists.
Boston Mass bookbinders have struck
for the purpose of accomplishing Uniform
scale Of wages and apprentice system.
Granite cutters at Portland, Me still
out: their demands fof mn incrase In wages
aud shorter day not having been met.
Fifty per cent of III the strikes In the
United States are successful, 12 per cent
successful in part, while 80 per cent fail
completely.
The strike Of the car cleaners employed
by the Pullman COMPANY at Chicngo H..
which began on June Is. has been declared
off
South Wales coal owners have case
against the miners associations and fcdar
aton for damages. arising out OF the stop
The Master Bakers' association ar Fau
River, Mass bns signed an agrcGncnt
with the Bakers union which ayerts
iron founders stil report trade as had In
the Wo'yerhampron. Eng. district. but
there are fewer members Of the union on
Union hodcarrIcrs OF Waterbury. Conn.
have innuguratcd a strike The men have
asked for an advance OF from 20 cents an
luton iron nolders at Council Bluffs.
Iowa, have returned 10 work. Their de
mands for an increase OF pay from 81. Is
to $825 day were met,
The most serious dispute OF the English
carpenters Mt present Is at Bradford, where
some 300 members are on strike against a
reduction Of wages.
One OF the features Of the building
trades lockout at Norfolk, Va. IA the lack
OF violence. Not single nouunion man
has been moiessted while Mt work.
BunHlN, n. y. laOor lelucrS ARE CInte0
over the fact that in ali the strikes there
during the spring there has not been a
single disturbance of any kind
trades Is still much longer than in Eng
land and the United States. Nevertheless,
progress in this line is noticeable
Because OF the advanced price of labor
the Milwaukee wis Brewers association
has decided 20 Increase the price Of beer
10 new customers 80 cents n barrel
Union laborers Ht Topeka Kan. will
probably strike IL their demands FOR 81 1C
for eight hours are not met They now
receive this figure for n ten hour day.
Hostilities have become manifest In con
nection with the engineers strike NJ Dub
lin, Ireland, between the men introduced
by the employers from Scotland and those
The British National Union Of Gas Work.
ers and General laborers, recently IN ses-
sion q, Londou. England. has agreed 10
iun two candidates at the next parlia-
A cash donation Of $4,000, 70 be used IN
carrying on the strike IN the West viz
ginia coal helds has been received In In.
d'apapolis, Ind, II came from the Illinois
miners.
The Atchison. Topeka and Santa Fc boil
ermakers at Topeka. Kan, divided IN
sentiment regarding the probability Of
Fe system.
BoileTmGkers III the Great Northern shop.
at HmlyArd, Wash, VIII probably remain
out The company has made an Offer OF
$3.50 day OF ten hours, but the men hay,
not accepted II.
Boilefmakers III tue Iowa Central rail
road shops AT Marshallton Iowa. are out
The boilermakcrs want ten hours pay unt
nine hours work. while the helpers want
Is cents more a day.
There are 1900 boot and shoe rnctorie.
III the United States, employing LAB, OOl
men, using, Si7ooooooo worth Of material,
wholesale 1921, 100000,
At the great majority of trade unior
gatherings In England Of late the chief topi
of discussion has been Labor Representa-
being
collected for this purpose,
AS result Of tho Dublin, Ireland strik,
the Amagamnted Society Of British Epgl
neers has to record an lacrease in the tota
number OF unemployed members, the pro
portion being now about 3Js per cent
The threatened strike Of the iron Inoldeu
at Montreal, Canada, has been averled b,
i "a men seeeRdng a SS6oampromiise rate Q
affected. They originally wanted $500
day.
Al Kansas city, Mo-, the Joint conference
of tho Order Of Railway Conductors an,
the brotherhood OF Railway Trainmen ha
practically resulted In a consolidation 0
the two bodies,
All employees Of the Portland city an,
Oregon railway, at Portland Ore hay,
struck. The grievance OF the employees /
against the superintendent aud dispatcher
whom they say are obnoxious TO The EN-
ployes and TO organized labor"
The Hoe printing press works, az New
York. has schooi In connection to whcl
attendance Is compulsory upon the part o
the boys learning trade. This Ia con
sidered necessary Dy reason or the highl
skilled labor required
About 40 per cent Of the men employe,
In the Minnesota mines are Finlanders; an
other 40 per cent Hungarians: about pc
cent Italians. and the rest are divide
among Americans, Germans. French
Scotch Welsh and Cornish.
About 100000 women In the Unite
states are wage earners or In business 10
themselves. or these 10000 teach school
10000 write 1900 preach, 6O00 practice med
iclne and 14O00 are engaged In art an
decorative work.
Two English delegates have been depute
to attend the annual congress Of the Fed
Grated Trade Unions In Germany as tn
representatives Of the General Federation
~ Trade Unions of Great Britain. Fedora
lions only send representatives.
AT Portland. Ore, the Building Trade
souncis has imposed fine OF $500 on tn
Carpenters' union for the refusal OF m
latter to enforce a boycott on the prod
uefs OF the planning mills of the city, whiel
ARE tied up by a strike q their EN-
ployes.
The eight hour bilr was not report
~ BY the senate committee on labo
and education al the recent session
This comes as great disappoint