Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-02-01
IN THE WORLD OF LABOR.

EiWooG, lnd., mas Il uoctoiS uiil'i'
Cincinnati school teachers VIII FORM d
union.
Toronto carpenters will demand an
cight-hour day.
Denver butchers are boScottinz
Swift meats.
Worcester labor. unions may adopt
the union label.
! The Baltimore Federation of Labor
will organize a ladies' auxiliary.
Denver's plumbers strike is over
The wage scale Is $4.25 4 day.
Los Angeles lumber handlers gained
| a nine hour day without asking for it,.
Thirteen hundred employees of Upton
| tho cup chaser. struck for an i:crc.ts-
of wages.
/ Pit,sburss United Mine Workers are
considering Carncgie's offer tn con
struct Il workers hospital there.
Worcestcr'; building trades. with the
exception of the steamftters and help
ers. have won the eight-hour day. -
Typographical Union, Winnipeg,
wants the number Of hours of labor per
week reduced from fifty-fosr 10 forty.
eight.
The Louisiana Purchase Exposition
will offer $500. 900 for "A successful air
ship. TO be exhibited there in 1903
Troy has twenty-sevea factories
where collars. cuffs and shirts are
made. They employ 1900 persons.
four-fifths being women. 49,
The United States and England are
the only two countries In the world
that now have exclusively private rail-
road systems.
The National Boot and Shoemakers'
Union organized sixteen big factories In
the month OF September. gaining 1000
members.
New York has 1881 labor organza-
lions, with a total membership Of 96l,-
523 men and l4,6lS women. OF this
total of 2I6.l41 trades unionists 174.022
are in the city of New York.
The Trades and Labor Council Of
/, Quebec is urging on the provincial gov
eminent the establishment of a bureau
OF labor, statistics similar to the On
tario bureau Of labor.
Pittsburg's s., OO0, 0OO. 900 steel combine
Is about to Introduce automatic ma
chinery in its tinplate mills. similar to
tina; in operation in the steel plants. 1t
is expected that hundreds Of skilled
wprkmen will be gradually displaced.
San Francisco labor people, having
carried the city, are planning to spread
out and carry the state. In Connecti-
cut state party is to be formed, and
the Colorado unions are preparing to
take the field along independent politi-
cal lines. ,
New Orleans 'Iongshoremen's strike
has been settled, the grain trimmers
receiving an advance and the old scale
remaining in effect, as applied to all
ether divisions of work. The trimmers
row receive 50 cents an hour for day
work, 70 cents an hour at night, and 81
an hour on Sunday.
TIE largest toy factory in the world
Is In New York. 1t makes 1907 distinct
varieties of toys. The building has an
annual output of over hundred mil
lion playthings. Last year nearly
three million tin whistles were made
and the tin soldiers reached the. enor-
nous total of six millions.
The ST. Louis Central Trades Council
has voted to back the building trades
in the fight to compel the recognition
OF union labor in erecting the buildings
fot the worlds fair to be held in that
city. The contractors having already
declared they WIFI stand for no dicta-
ton from the labor unions. there is
every indication that a bitter contest
will soon be precipitated
England'S cooperative associations
according to reports, accumulated and
divided among their members nearly
s43,y0SG000 by me members purchasing
at their own stores. They issue weekly
an official journal having a circulation
OF 51.000 copies. which earned a profit
approaC ming $4,000 in the last fiscal year
of its existence, and gained $1,000 adj
ditional members during. the same
time.
The Louisville barber strike is over.
The scale as signed gives a guarantee
OF 49, with IS per cent. Of all taken in
over SIS; opening hour, Z o'clock every
morning. and closing at II O'Clock
Saturday night. neck shave will
cost cents: beard trim, Is cents, and
seafoam, Is cents. The BARRIERS wanted
50 guarantee. with 60 per cent, and
10 o'clock closing hour Saturday night
in the central part Of town.
BtOoklyn's,} dispute between shoe
manufacturers Wtchsrt e. Gardiner
and the employees in the factory of the
firm over compensation for new work
Is said TO be on the road to settlement
by arbitration. About $50 lasters ma de
protest. An agreement the firm has
With the employees has prevented a
strike up to the present time. Under
the agreement the firm is to forfeit
$4,000 should they break the contract,
and If the employees should do so, every
man among them would be liable to
forfeit s25 and every female empioye
SIS, =
SFhe PENNSYLVANIA Railroad Company
mas posted formal notice of the in
|rrease Of wages of employees through
'oss the shops. etc. or Philadelphia. TIE
increase went into effect from January
I, and Is signed by d. H. Lowell, sup r.
fTtendent of the terminal division. The
new scale is as follows: First -class en-
sineers those In service three years
or more). 20 cents per hour: secon l.
clRss engineers tthose In service two
years.. q cents per hour: third ella IS
engineers linen just promoted), Is
cents per hour; fireinen, Is cents per
hour; first-clfss conductors, day ser-
vice, "a cents per hour; second-class
conductors. day service. % cents. first
class conductoFs, night service. s5l
cents; second-class' conductors. night
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