The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-14
ECHOES OF WORKSHOP.
MILL AND MINE
Review of the Weeks Work In Every
Nation on the Globe Where Ar
tisans Hold Sway.

Rutland, VT, machinists are on strike
| Iron workers in Belgium are well en-
| ployed at present.
| Massos, Sweden, has a woman's fire
| department $50 strong.
Only union labor will hereafter be EN-
Neb 5eN ~ DITCH sewer Work at omaha
There is a possibility of a strike
| ton, Canada.
A strike of the Union Pacific machinists
! IS imminent unless the road recognizes
| the union.
the Bs etV Dsrt With h 6 July all employs
| ceive an increase in wages.
The carpenters strike at Barre, Vt.
their demands for $2.5O day.
A further reduction of hands will prob
works at Dowlais, Wales.
The Union Labor party, of Alameda
county, Cal, is to hold county conven-
tlcn at HayWard'S on July 16.
A new branch of the British Steel
Shelters Amalgamated association has
been formed at Port Talbot, Wales.
Miners at Fernie, B. c.. have again
gone on strike. They have been working
barely month since the last strike.
Labor unions at Syracuse. N. Y. rem
resent1ng about 5000 men, intend pIac-
ing labor candidate in the field for
mayor.
Union Pacific shops at Evanston, Wyo..
are now running full time, with very lit
tie talk of strike among the machin-
Boston (Mass.) bookbinders have
struck for the purpose of ACCOMPLISHING
q uniform scale of wages and appren-
tlce system.
Granite cutters at Portland, Me-, are
still out; their demands for an increase
IN wages and a shorter day not having
been met. 9
Fifty percent Of all the strikes in the
united states are successful, 10 per cent
successful in part, while SO per cent fail
completely. 1919
The strike of the car cleaners emploved
by the Pullman company at Chicago. iii
clared off. eA 0e
South Wales coal owners have a. case
against the miners association and fed
efatlon 4or damages arising out of the
stop-days some time ago.
Inc Master Bakers association Of Fa11
River, Mass, has signed an agreement
with the Bakers union which aYerts a
threatened strike.
! Iron ron founders still report trade as bad
IN the WolverhanNton, Eng. district but
there are fewer members of the union on
donation benefit. 0-A
Union hodcarriers at Waterbury, Conn.
nave lnaugurated strike. The men have
asked for an advance of from 20 cents an
hour to 22H cents.
Union iron molders at Council RlufYs
Iowa, have returned to work Their de-
nands Tor an increase of pay from 81
10 80. 70 day were met.
The most serious dispute of the English
carpenters at present is at Bradford.
where some 300 members are on strike
against reduction in wages.
One of the features of the building
trades lockout at Norflk, Va, is the lack
OF violence. Not a single non-union man
has been molested while at work.
Buffalo. N. Y, labor leaders are elated
over the fact that in all the strikes there
hos
single disturbance Of any kind
In Germany the working day in most
trades is still much longer than in Eng
land and the United States Neverthe
less, progress in this line is noticeable.
Because of the advanced price Of labor
the milwaukee, (Wis.) Brewers associa-
tion has decided to increase the price of
beer to new customers so cents a barrel.
Union laborers- at Topeka, Kan, will
probably strike, if their demands for 81 so
Tor eight hours are not met. They now
receive this figure for a ten-hour day.
Hostilities have become manifest in
connection with the engineers strike at
Dublin, Ireland, between the men intro
duced by the employers from Scotland and
those who are out.