The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-10-12
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cusslng the project Of establishing home
for sick and disabled members along the
same lines as the Printers home 1T Colo
Linotype operators have been asked TO
80 to South Africa 10 work for SD 80 per
week Of fortyeight hours. Under the BOer
government The minimum was $50 for for
ty-two hours.
Girls have taken the places OF striking
drier hands at san Jose, Cal, orchards.
The strikers bad already been granted en-
advance was refused
San francisco, Cal. cement workers
hHNc received Hm advance of 80 cents : day,
the contractors having accented The new
wage scale. unishers To receive SlJ1 day.
and lborcrs aud hplncrs So.
Carpenters aud loiuers ~ Madford, Eng
land have returned 90 work after hitccu
mouths strike on compromisc basis ~
Sid 10 hour Tho meu demanded pd aud
the enuluycrs onh offered 81
At Toronto Canada. court decision Is
10 the erect that a labor union may be
fed liy ruiulostW Tor damages ls the re-
suit Of au organization interfering With en-
pioycs dfD inE tie progrvss ~ "A strike.
Sir William Meredith has staR;sd conn.
so for the International Sheet Metal Work
ere union rcriuiSsion 90 plead ar a trial
that the qnion could not be sued because
u was not registered society
Three thousand Chinese ship carpenters
employed IN the great deck wards at Hong
TbeT were receiving 30 cents from Euro
pean hrlns aud 40 cents from Chinese
Alfred Mosclv's recently selected indus
trial commission VIII. 70 L. expected leave
London. Eng. for New York ehout the end
81 October 10 inquire into the conditions
ana methods OF labor IN America.
Labor saving machines Introduced IN the
canning factories az Oulmpcr, Brittany.
France, led 10 n strike and ultimately 70
riot, IN which the workmcn marched 20
the factories and smashed the new appli-
ances.
Z IglrnWoUa Nuf
md n strike innugurntcd IN the States OF
Montana, Idaho and Utah. They demand in
creased wages and recognition II their
union.
The so~ollsts On Italy have declared in
congress Tor mn evolutionary policy, and
condemned the revolutionary party ne inm-
ical to pelcefui progress Auarch,sm Is
running the labor policy wherever Il IA ad-
Nocated and pursued.
Tho result 81 the referendum TO the
miners as regards q general sttdkc lu the
| loire district of France was f0ii votes for
! aud only 81 against. Not only the miners
/ but the puddlcrs struck work, ana also
! some metal workers.
| , mere mas hrSn some str agnin NJ the
/ Bethesda quarries. Lord Penrhyn has re-
/ fused 20 consider the proposals for TO
| onenihZ negotiations, as requested hv the
! nten. Ills lOrdshlp refers 20 the ntimIda-
! ton and violence as a reason
structural tron workers now have an I'm.
/ demnity fund Of 5000 FOR each total disa-
! hilify case. A member Is paid the iuden-
/ nifty II he loses an arm or leg OF Is
| otherwise disabled so thar he can not foi.
/ low the calling ~ structural iron worker.
| have complained 10 the building trades
] council aud requested that there be ccssa.
/ ton In demands for higher wages, as the
=, e dyaiands UPSET an calculations as
The san Francisco. CAL Elevator Mems
/ union resolved 20 petition the board OF
1 supervisors 70 ADOPT an ordinance regulat-
! ing the operation Of elevators SO that no
| person under ~ years az age and only ex-
/ perleuced men may be employed
| The vallejo (Call Trades and Labor coun-
| eli has asked the state Federation Of Labor
! TO use It's influence With the National Fed
I Grafton 81 Labor to have the clause iu the
| copsttugion OF the National Federation that
/ struck out
Tho Mason Contractors association Is a
! newly formed New York organization which
has for rs real purpose the placing of its
members In position % make building
Nage,earners 50 as 70 regulate yearly wage
steam dtters AZ Bufalo n. ". have ask,
ed Permission OF the Plumbers union Ia
make demand Of an Increase IN wages OF
from 50 10 50 80 day for day Of eight
made IL must be ratified by the Journey.
men plumbers
The New York state board OF mediation
nnd arbitration recorded sixty fresh dis
phtes IN Aprii. May and June. Involving
40 'lrms and 9lGA0 wOrkmen who lost
| "a the aggregate SOi,O days' work. on
the .t5OO strifers only GOO were entirely
defeated.
An educational COURSE or instruction 1,
being considered by the National AssOciR
Il lion Of Stationary Engineers The plan n
~ conduct course covering nficep y
twenty wccks which VIII he omen 10 ~
members LECTURES will he given and I
ePrios ~ practical qnssticns pronounded
, aud answered
nrw lfetherhnod N railway employees
! q Forming NFthc WEST they claim n mem
hfrship ~ neatly 100 IN San Francisco
u ~ pfpppfec 20 demand an increase u II
PR cent "a the wages paid west cf n,
! Missouri river and January 1 Is the dati