Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-30
The World of Labor.
iontreaIs electric workers are stin

$5n0,000 for new public baths.
san francisco iron-workcrs, who
were II odds, have amalgnmatcd.
Brooklyn plumbers won the "a 4 day
wage scale and Saturday half holiday.
Kansas Farmers Co-operative AS
ISOLATION saved $4,000 in handling
wheat last year.
Homestead, Pa. will establish 4
building trades council along lines
similar to the Pittsburg council
Pittsburg's 2OG9 structural iron and
bridge workers will be granted am in-
crease .ot p por cent. and am eight
hour day after May l.
March was the banner month i'm the
history W the American Federation of
Labor. 137 applications for charters
having been received.
The common council u Rockville,
conn. voted t3 maIle the working
hours " city laborers nine hours i'm
Stead cr ten, as heretofore.
Tne National Association of Blast
Furnace Workers has issued notice Qa
demand for the cigat-horr iay'
without reduction of pay, u take ef-
feet May /. the association embraces
$4,000 workers.
CIeveland's z000 carpenters have sa-
cured an advance Of 2i2 cents an hour
10 20 into effect May l. The asreeIneuJ
provides for the employment of union
men only, ana a minimum wage scale
of 3- cents an hour.
Nm effort is being made. back-d by
.rsf
OF America tn concentrate the energy
and interest of an Of the allied build
ing trades and local unions cf th-
country into one central organization
Another man has been killed in con-
nccticn with the machinists' strike at
tIra AIlis-Chalmers Works, Chicago
This makes the second murder at the
chalmers works. IA union man Naa
the INST victim1 non-unionist the see-
ond.
After more than two years battling
for recognition as national Crgarizd-
tiou, the Custom Clothing Makers
Union of America has at last received
" charter from tbe American Fedora
tJu W Labor. III Lus membership Obj
Ior0
Tho American Bridge Company VIII
ere,t r. new piant at Economy Pa. TIC
cost of the WORKS win be between
s., ,5to0ao AHA S3.el0,00O. It win have a
capacity of about 2e000O tons year
ana viii employ four or five thousand
men.
4 gigantic tia-up of the building
bo1m in Cincinnati is proposed, if Am
agreement rs not arrived ut by May IL
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Architectural ana eiectiicai workers
have already issued their uitimaium.
The advance Of 1O Der cent. which
Was granted to the 27,o00 employees Of
the Fan River. Mass, cotton mills
Early last month has become general
IL southern New England. II iss e5Ji-
mated trar full. $1,000 bands in Lhat
section nave had their wages n
creased.
r,b. v--,-+ r,f +ra commissioner ssi
l.1,r,. a,, s--f1-es ei7o,rs Ibs+ IN f,,.s,,ty
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-,,-e7.. -l1sF4. re+al,list,ra,,tz affected htz
these strikes. In Aba concerns tha |
STRIKERS zrcr.caFcd III 1u thay s-c-
cecsed tartIv. and, FL 5s2 feiIe,l. rh,l
report estimates the total loss VI en-
nIovcrs at 81. .626. .BOO. ana to employees
HI $2, ,T2S, ,5f0
At Hazeltnn. Pa. there ars Y, many
annlicante gof .tba nositiops o1 VA.
nol;cc forea tbat tbrea ,gbo ,-.7,t ths
Nee eban t,i5 ror tEa,n a,5 tbos4
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N Ny evpaetpa IN tha an,ipgilp7cn tb.t M
thc measure carries men wil be ob-
tanned for $40 month. THE labar Unions
of TIazeiton propose tn make tbe nset-
ing W the city council interesting when
the measure comes up before tlat
body.
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