Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-23
The World Of Labor.

| Indiana labor unions have bepun on
| itation against the chain-makinp wo osI
done in the State Reformatory at Jeffer
| sonville.
The masons and bricklayers of 10,
| River, Mass, have postponed their ~
| posed strike and accepted eight hon.
| after May 5.
Three of the largest class cities in Con
| necticut now have labor mayors-Hart
ford, Ansonia and Bridgeport-and al
are able orators. .
The Common Council of Rockv;,,o
Conn, voted to make the working hnn'..
of city laborers nine hours instead q,
| ten. as heretofore.
"Bushelmen," the journeyman tai1o,s
who do the alteration work in the of.
fees of the most fashionable Chica .,
tailors, have formed union.
The Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners in Philadelphia is arranging for
| a concerted move looking to an increa -
| in wages and shorter hours.
| The San Francisco Labor Council ba
| submitted to the Board of Supervisors an
| ordinance for the maintenance of FREE
| open-air concerts.
The 10 per cent increase of 10000 Rhode
Island cotton operatives means only i no
cent, because the new 5S-hour law goe;
into effect this week Heretofore 60 hours
| have prevailed.
At the York, Pa, rolling mill raise of
% cents a ton in puddlers' wages viii
| take effect April 10. This raise will make
| puddlers wages $425 a ton, the highest
| rate ever paid in the York mill.
| An effort is being made, backed bv the
National Building Trades Council of
America, to concentrate the energy and
interest of all of the allied building
trades and local Unions of the country
| into one central organization.
The 200 freight handlers in Providence
r. L., employed by the New York. New
Haven & Hartford railroad have for
warded written request to the COMPANY
that their wages be increased 10 cents a
day to 81 .95 and reply is asked for with:
in two weeks.
The State Board of Mediation and Arbi-
tration at ST. Joseph, Mo-, after hearing
penters' strike, decided that the men
should receive 50 cents an hour. They de-
manded 31i2 cents. Both sides are we'll
satisfied with the result.
All lines are laid for gigantic tie-up Of
the building boom in Cincinnati if an
agreement is not arrived at by May |.
over 10000 building laborers are to de-
mand shorter hours and more pay. Archi-
tectural and electrical workers have al
ready issued their ultimatum.
In a communication to the Federation
National President Samuel CONNER;
blamed the leaders of the Chicago Team
sters Union for his recent failure to get
back into the ranks of the Team Drivers
international Union the 1900 Chicago
transfers who have seeded.
Leaders on lumber boats on the Great
Lakes are to ask for 60 cents an hour.
The present rate is 90 cents an hour and
the rate has ruled at the head of the
lakes with the exception of two seasons
ago, wnen 1t was 60 cents an hour. Last
year the rate went down to 80 cents an
hour, without the union giving any
trouble.
The government Of Germany appears as
the purchaser of patent rights, covering
al Europe except Great Britain and
France, for an automatic switchboard
manufactured in Chicago that will dis
place telephone system of 10000 instru-
ments. Many operators will be forced to
seek other employment, as one person
can Keep an entire system in order
The call has been issued for the annual
convention at Trinidad for the Colorado
State Federation of Labor on June 8.
President Garman terms Trinidad and
Southern Colorado the ''hot-beds of the
enemy's country, and says the delegates
porations who are fighting unions and in
organizing men in and around Trinidad.
The bill introduced into the last Legis-
lature of Alabama to regulate the labor
OF children only reached the stage of pub
lie hearingS-which We're largely attend
ed. But the agitation in favor of such
legislation is gaining organized strength,
and it is inevitable that factory legisla
ton for the protection of children should
ultimately be adopted in the South as it
has been elsewhere in the manufacturing
world
T.. l.. Smyth, general president and
chief organizer, and H. w. Steinbiss. gen.
eral secretary, treasurer and founder of
the National Building Trades Council,
with headquarters in st. Louis, Mo-, have
already spent three months in reorganiz-
ing the allied trades unions throughout
the East. and expect to spend two weeks
more. Combinations of unionists have
been accomplished in Holyoke, Spring.
field, Brockton and Worcester, Mass.
Providence. r. l., and Hartford, Bridge
port and Norwalk.
The supreme court of Porto Rico has
released Santiago Ingiesias, president of
the Federation of Workmen of Porto
Rico, sentenced December Il last, to three
years, four months and eight days i'm
priSonment on the charge of cOnspiring to
raise the price of labor in Porto Rico.
Iglesias dwelt on the constitutional rights
of people to assemble peaceably. The
public prosecutor, to the surprise of the
court. sustained and strengthened the
argument of the defense. He said the
appeal was well taken, put in no evidence
for the prosecution. and practically asked
the court to dismiss the case.
Judge Dempsey of Cincinnati granted a
temporary injunction to the Mcdonald
Printing Company to restrain their Strik-
ing pressmen and press feeders. He re-
fused, however, to grant the blanket in
junction asked for, and greatly limited its
scope. He refused to enjoin picketing ard
refused a general injunction asked
against any and all unlawful acts" He
said these would have to be specified. and
that the acts must be such as to interfere
with property rights. He further notified
the attorneys that they must be ready
to meet a motion to dissolve the injunc-
ton at any time, as he proposes to give
the defendants hearing within "a hours
of the time they ask for it.
Three amendments to the charter of the
Greater New York, just been discovered
by the building trades unions, practically
nullfy so far as New York City is con-
cerned, all the agitation of the labor
unions for the last 10 years for restricting
convict labor. The amendment to which
the most objection is raised gives the
commissioners of correction power to en-
ploy convicts on outside work. as well as
in manufacturing articles for the use OF
the institutions controlled by him. Sec
ton 10l. the second amendment objected
to, provides that any commissioner in
any department may apply for prison Ia
Dor to the commissioner of correction and
employ it upon any public work without
the formality of advertising for bids for
supplies or contracts. Section 663, the
third amendment. provides for the en-
ployment of pauper labor. principally in
the department OF charities, but says that
the articles manufactured may be util-
lied as the commissioner may wish.