The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-10-12
THE WORLD OF INDUSTRY
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Echoes Of tie Busy Workshop, Mil
and Mine.
THE GOSSIP OF tue BRFADWINNEpE
Review Of the Weeks Work In Every
Nation on the Globe Where Manufao-
turers and Mechanics Hold Sway.
THE GOSSIP OF the BpFAOWINNERE

Gcrmany has oa5ooO trade uuionists.
Warren. Il. l.. carpenters have organised.
Toronto Canada iithogrnphers viii form
union.
Plans are on foot to build a labor temple
NJ Topeka. Kan
fleetwood, England. carpenters have
struck against piecework.
Portsmouth. \. H.. labor unions win put
q candidate for state senator In the aed.
Bartcmders at Youngstown. Ohio, have
presented & new scale Of wages and hours
II Is probable that all hrewories Ia New
York City viii be organized In short
time.
Marine engineers on the Great Lakes have
adopted last years scale Of wages Tor next
In tae past twenty years in only one
NTH of tile coal strikes have the men Sc
cured their demands.
ployed 10 the merchant marine Of Great
Hod carriers at stanford university, Cal,
are on strike for an Increase from $3.50 to
Bricliaycrs At savannah. Co, arc on
strike for 40 cents 40 hour au1 recognition
cart men aud s,eycdores at Santiago.
cuba, hare struck fof au advance OF 40
per cent 10 wages.
Rioious scenes are reported In connection
Eaiployes IN the Louisville and Nashville
s8cpe nj Pensacola, Fla, nave received an
increase II 10 per cent.
Female factor employees nj Flint, Mich
average Of cents day, aud unc-nat are
employed by the piece
Messengers II the American Express com
pHuy have received voluntary Increase IN
salary II 10 per cent
Girls viii 10 employed rs messengers By
the Western Iulou Telegraph company 81
Salt Lake City. Utah
Day laborers are Ia great demand az st
louis. No, and wages have advanced 80
per cent ID The past two months
steady Increase Va tue numbcr or
white men employed In the mines Ht 10
hannesbnrs. south Africa Is reported
struck ta enforce demand fef a nine hour
day and n new scale 81 wages
Esfry member y the Ciearmakers' union
label
in6luding policemen. prcssmcn. bakers,
postoi employees aud market people, It
least l21o00 people are working al night
b London
There are more than 5oo0 postmlstressos
N EngiHnd. and the postoftce department
employs altogether about 10000 women.
A movement has been lnausurotCd among
the northumberland England, miners for
q general strike as protest against the
There bare been nearly ZOO strikes in
months. IS per cent 6f which hsve been
settled 81 favor Of the men
nniehists, snd bl, I.Gooooo in the United
plation
strife They demand 81 Il foot for digging
and naterisl for blasting 90 he furnished
them
An eight hour work day Is en- II tae
constitutional amendments 20 be subm tied
Il vote Of tho people OF Colorado tn
ttiass hcftIs btov,e-e haze ,dc,t.4 s,.
years wage scale fdr the coming year
liking wages for GOO jourucymeu and 1870
apprentices
Locomotive engineers ou the Canadian
Pacific railway receive slight Increase
under the revised schedule which has hist
Andersen. Ind. Building Trades council
mas peutioned city council 10 have ai
work on the new Carnegie library per.
Washington tStatci Federation ~ Labor
VIII try To- have law establishing an
elght hcur DAY on public work pissed at
me next session u the legislature.
Spanish railway workers are it a state
o., o. gnresL an %, general strike is iare :
the hours OF labor decreased
The l2s Angeles. Cal Federal Labor
g1lQn VIII seek 70 fore mcu enployius
inhrferS for ctr work "a obey the state
low requiring them To- pas s. dav
New cnl fields which have been opened
w Pc f9.aul inay. u Is stated, Load 10
manufacturing elites M Europe
b. WnEcs Of CoHeh rsrnoEtars palnters
srd timers Ia nll Atlantic Coast Line shops
WI ne advanced 60 Fut them on purity
WttA wages maid oy other Southern roads
SFt4hNr tNnshl street ear cmployeH Will
rfre,fc one and unchalf times regilar nav
ieF EnrklnF on their day IN The Increase
Nss fo'aqiaTy on the part u the company.
After Q strike ~ hyc weeks costing
about csNA, the Wlrril (Walea mtcrs
= TIE Recommendation ~ the agents az the
thr old terms ~
fsoiory Inspector Davies win make the
mrs. test case 81 the Illinois chiii labor
law hy proceedings against several chi
eage args for employing children under IA
The Brotherhood Of Bonkhluders are dis