The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-06-15
Echoes Of the Busy Workshop, Mill
and Mine.
GOSSIP OF the BUEADwlNNERs.
Review OF the Weeks Work in Every Ma
ton on the Globe Where Artisans
and Mechanics Hold Sway.
Carpenters are on strike at Quincy, Ill.

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hour day.
Kansas mine workers have prepared
new scale, due to dissatisfaction owe, last
years contract.
Painters and decorators at Hamilton,
Canada, have been granted an increase ln
wages without strike.
Because Of their inability to procure
recognition of the union. needle makers
OF Franklin, \. H., are on strike.
me journeymen bakers at Glen Falls,
\. l., have organized and an application
mas been made for charter
=. Los Angeles, Cal, has been chosen as
Ihe next place for the convention OF the
brotherhood Of Locomotive Engineers.
:, photographers or the Western Union ut
new tork city are organizing under the
direction Of the American Federation OF
The Boss Bakers association aud their
employees at Hartford. Conn, are conttnu.
ing their warfare against the nonunion
The lumbermen Of Chattanooga Tenn,
have organized the Chattanooga Lumber.
mems association as fratcrnal and pro-
tectiYe union.
The strike of the blast furnace workers
IN tho Shenango and Mahouins valleys has
peen settled by the payment of an advance
OF 10 per cent In wages
A compromise between the contractors
and the, striking workmen at Lemberg
austria, has been reached, and the strike
mas Deen called on
Mining investments at Parral, Mexico,
have caused numerous building operotions
and II is hardly possible to get carpenters
and brick layers.
on Members OF the Grand Counters union,
lhey objected to the employment OF
men expelled by the union last week
atte mton ppIa nn' steam filters and gas
employers having refused unanimously 10
agree TO demand for SO a day.
=, over 5000 servant girls are on the police
ISIS OF out,of'work, and unemployed CIR
many, at the rate Of 600 weekly.
Three thousand dollars has been voted
Dg me western Federation Of Miners con-
ing trr" the expulsion at Fcrnie, b. c.
Nothlhg Is being done at Berlin, Ger
many IN the Iron branch. IN building and
mining, ana the number Of unemployed men
exceeds that Of last year by 27I5 per cent,
Strikes Of architectural iron workers have
neen ordered by their union az Now York
~ the shops OF about ten employers 10 en-.
quit work
Prominent labor leaders Of New York
city have asked rammany to iudorse wal
Eleventh district, to succeed the late Amos
j. Cummings.
All printers in the Job offices In Chicago
nave secured raise in wages OF 81 SO a
week. over 1900 men are affected. Typo.
graphical union No. 10 backed the men in
their demands.
The workers put on short time in the cot
ton industries OF Lancashire, England, are
to be dealt with as unemployed and paid
out.of-work benefit, II the time lost comes
within the unions regulation.
Bakers OF Ponce, Porto Rico hive won a
strike for increase In wages Blacksmiths
ana an carpenters received better conditions
without strike Two laws nave been pass
ed which are favorable TO labor
Almost all of the workmen employed nj
Prov ldence, II. l., in constructing buildings
or who are In any why affiliated with the
Building Trades Council, about 1000 In al
are now working on the eighth basis
Bridge workers in the two plsnts Of tho
Empire Bridge company at Elmirn, ~ Y
are on strike, due to the autagonlstic at
titude OF the company concerning an at
tempt TO establish union In the compRny's
shops.
An old ordinance allowing only eight
hours work a day on city Jobs has been re-
yived at Kansas City, Mo, 1t has resulted
IN strike OF sewer laborcrs, who expected
the snme pay that they have been receiving
for ten hours,
effect on the Central New England railroad
Poughkeepsie Bridge route, June /. section
men will receive 81 80 per day Instead OF
81 %, and section foremen Sl2 per week in
Because OF the refusal OF the brewers OF
Cincinnati, Ohio. to give employment TO all
of the S75 old men who are still out from
the February strike, the United Brewery
through efforts at boycott
According to n recent ruling OF the Co.
lumbus (ohio) circuit court. the technical
Knowledge n man gains while In the en-
ploy OF another is his own personal prop,
| erty, with which he may do as he pleases.
| Notice has been given all men and boys
Tacoma, Wash, of on advance OF > per cent
In wages. lhe order affects about 500 en-
| ployes, and the present pay roll Of $4,000
! q month will be increased $1,000,
u tu NF
unions in Spain have been endeavoring to
| orgaplze another general strike In Bar
celona; but the government Is ON the alert.
| Already thlrty-seven reported anarchists
have been arrested as a matter Of precau-
/ tion,
There appears to be consensus OF opin.
| Ion among the miners In tho Federation dis
trlcts OF England that the question of a
! reduction In wages shall be left unreserv-
| eddy In the hands Of Lord James OF Here
| ford, as mediator Tor the Cancellation board.
saltwater, MINI. mlnmen have made a
proposition 10 the strikers 10 let the men
return to work on ten-hour schedule
at ten hours pay, the question OF wages
TO be decided during the mouth of june.
| The strikers ara not ready TO accept the
Rive men were shot recently at Granite
and striking moiders OF the American
/ steel and Foundry company Flfty negroes
were brought In to take the places of the
] strikers. and were at once set upon.
/ The demands OF tue botlermakers In the
! santa Fe machine shops at San Bernardluo.
| Cui, have been acceded TO, but the men
| Will probably stay out with the needles men
| who are awaiting a reply from headquarters
| 10 their demand for m Increase In wages,
The strike of 1900 miners at Pontypridd,
! England, against the uonunionlsts and men
| in arrears OF contribution is likely TO lead
| 10 further complications and litigation, as
! the manager OF the collleries refuses 10
| discharge the men at the dictation OF the
| union.
The Western labor union convention, held
| at Denver, Col, recently, has organized Il
| new political labor party called The Amer.
| lean Labor Union" President Daniel Nc.
! Donald says the party will not enter the
| political neld with nominations for at least
! another wear.
| The organization called Federation
| Regional" composed OF employers, employees
| Of the MUNICIPALITIES and supported by the
| Porto Rican republicans, Is opposed to the
organization Of the workers al San Juan,
| Porto Rico. under the American Federation
! Of Labor.
The clothing manufacturers at Syracuse,
! ~ V, having declined to accede TO the
! demands OF the garment workers for an I'm.
| crease of per cent 20 their subcontrac.
! tors. made necessary by tho concession Of
| the nlne.hour work day, 1900 employees have
| refused 10 work,
| Some OF the Belgian coal pits, on rcsum,
| ing operations after the strike, reduced
wages s per cent and In the coal districts
! u no oil