Alaska sentinel., 1902-12-04

Rochester walters have organized.

 day.
 Albany telephone linemen receive S2.75 a day.
 New York City has 10000 organized wage workers.
 The Master Horseshoers' Union has 25,0O0 members.
 Spain has ordered the eight-hour day for government work.
 Morganyille, W. Va. will have S1,- 100000 plate glass plant.
 Cleyeland's new S45000 labor temple project Is assuming definite shape
 The English Britannia metal trade dispute was settled after five months.
 Greater New York's 5000 carpenters won the strike for the eight-hou day and S4.5O a day.
 In Austria, 10000 miners have won a nine-hour workday. The men were on strike nine months.
 The Bank of England employs about 1000 people, pays quarter of T mil lion a year in wages, and f35, ,OO0 year in pensions.
 Mexican labor Is so scarce as to ne- cessitate sending for negroes from Ja- maica. The latter are guaranteed em- ployment for year.
 The American Steel and Wire Com many is ,,lapnipy to bt,iJJ a bnSnitai f, F the treatment of emergency cases on the grounds of each of its twenty-two plants.
 The Journeymen Bakers and Con fectioners' Union of North America has l2,000 members. distributed in 2223 To. cal unions throughout the United States and Canada.
 The National Association of Post office Clerks. which held a convention in Kansas City, again declared its sym pathy with the objects of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor. but declines to affiliate.
 The laws of Kansas provide that the labor unions of the State shall organize State order and select the labor com missioner, thus giving the unions the privilege of saying who shall represent them in so important q position.
 American Flint Glass Workers In ion, at Pittsburg. Pa. has gained de cided victory in securing from the Mae beth Evans Glass Company a compro- mise advance for skilled men of the factories of per cent in wages.
 The arbitration board of the Chicago City Railway agreed upon a 10 per cent increase in wages, a uniform working day of nine hours. and pay and one half for all work over and above nine hours, and two holidays a month
 The movement for strict law against child labor has been taken up in earnest in Indiana, and an effort will be made to push stringent bill through the next Legislature An edu- cational qualification, similar to that in Massachusetts. is proposed.
 Cattle butchers In all the big packing centers of the West have secured rise in wages and q shortening of the working day, which marks one of the most decisive victories that the work men have ever secured from the pack ing firms. The rise in wages Is gen eral. and affects every man engaged in cattle killing and dressing. except the workmen of St. Paul, Minn, and Sioux City, Iowa, where the men are paid by the week instead of by the hour, as in Chicago.
 Brooklyn Plasterers' Union has q rule which permits the union to fine any boss plasterer who may be discovered paying members of the union less than the union scale of wages In a very heavy penalty. This rule, 1t Is told, has been of much benefit to the trade, and has been strictly enforced for about two years, during which time, 1t is also told. that the treasury of the union has been enriched by nearly s2,- 900 paid for fines by erring boss plas- terers. and by delinquent members of the union.
 The Iron Holders Union of North America is making preparations for the inauguration of a general nine-hour work day. At the recent convention held in Toronto the plan was outlined, and all unions instructed to make the shorter work day the paramount issue ftItI ,l districts will be called into conference shortly so that some definite action may be taken by Jan. l next In the district which comprises the local unions in Chicago, Cleveland, Cincin- natl. St. Louis, Indianapolis. Detroit, and Milwaukee delegates will meet in conference within the next few weeks and launch the nine hour movement.