The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-09-09
Echoes Of the Busy Workshop, Mill
and Mine.
The GOSSIP OF THE BREADwINNFRs
Review Of the Weeks Work In Every
Nation on the Globe Where Manufae-
turers and Mechanics Hold Sway.

omaha, Neh., street railway men have
recently organized union
About 1000 diamoad workers in Amster-
dam, Holland, are cut Of WORK.
gainesville, Ohio metal mechanics have
won their strike. aiter beng out ten
Laundry workers have perfected plans
for. the organization OF union at Denver
PSylng laborers at Tacoma. wash. have
| sttuek Tor $2.2o day. ihey have been
The Seattle Cvash.l Central Labor union
has secured the necessary funds 10 build
| u labor temple.
The strike Of the street car employees at
Lafayette. Ind. viii iike'y b. settled by
At Sacramento, Cal, 400 women we're
recently initiated as memhers OF the Re-
The strike Of the Electrical workers
union at Hamilton, Ont, will probably be
/ settled by arbitration.
| pissed an ordinance that all city printing
must bear the union label.
No less than 10 per cent u the factory
employees IN New South Males are said 10
be engaged IN the timber Industry.
Menueal 1Ganl 'iongshoremen 10 the
humDet OF o1oV nave Nikdh1eui dnu ~
now the strongest labor Organization Ia
Montreal
III wsges atone $500. 100000 Is annually
expended by the United States Steel Cor
poratiou, better known as the steel trust
President Roosevelt viii attend the hien-
nal convention OF Locomotive Firemen 70
be held at Chattahooga, Tenn. septem-
The Bank OF England employs ABOUT 1000
people pays quarter Of million year
In wages and 1850 wear In pensions
Mexican labor is so scarce as 20 neces
state sending for negroes from jamaica
The latter are guaranteed employment for
Edward Boyce. former president OF the
Western Federation OF Miners, Will be the
candidate of the social party for governor
Freight handlers employed by the Erie
railroad az Chicago, ~, have gone on a
sympathetic strike. The strike rs not eN-
The English Britannia metal trade dis
pute which has lasted over ave months,
has now been settled aud the men have re-
Packing house butchers at omaha. Neb..
win strike i the i1ereglse ia wages de-
izatlon recently Is not granted.
The strike OF the telephone linemen al
A A rsceye y SS Sy srasS and @e
and half for overtime
AZ Brooklyn, n y, 1000 Iron workers
and helpers have returned to work, as they
were unable 10 induce the boiler smiths to
strike In sympathy
AZ Manila 7. l. prominent labor lead
| threatening to aSsassinate certain striking
/ Journeymen tallors Of New Haven, Coon
/ will organize and again demand an Increase
( IN wages, The last move Of the workmen
/ In the latter direction was a failure.
I
1 mond, Va, have gone out on strike, the
/ complaint being that too large proportion
/ OF the cheroots are thrown out as bad and
1t is announced that between 1900 and
2000 lahorers VIII be wanted this fall 70
~ out the construction gangs ON the Val.
DEE Eagle railroad In Alaska work on
which Will be started AT once.
I Ashland, KY, street railway men will
! probably strike agniD They ARE not sat
ished with the terms OF settlement reached
| a short time ago, and demand more pay
and recognition OF the union.
At present the membership Of the Jour
/ ueymen Bakers aud Confectioners' Inter
] national union OF North America Is not
! less than 1900, distributed In 10y loca
unions throughout the United states and
| Canada.
/ At Beauvaris France, serious collision
between the strikers and nonstrking work
! men occurred recently. nnd ten were wound
ed and the fight continued until IA company
Of cavalry compelled the combatants TO
separate.
The laws OF Kansas provide that the
lalAr unions Of the State shall organize
state society and elect the i,,bor comrlis
slouer thus giving the unions the privilege
Of saying who shall represent them In 5,
important position
The Conductors and Railway Mems as
ISOLATION Of Canada, representing some ~.
coo employees on the Canadian railways
mas adopted resolutions at Montreal pledg
ing It's members not 10 handle or use Goa
mined by ndnunion labor.
The Machinists' union Of Topeka, KAN
has called a meeting TO discuss the actor
OF the Santa Fe railroad in discharging ~
Of their number. The machlnlsfs claim
that the road took special pains 10 dis
charge the officers of the union.
At a meeting Of the board OF directors
Of the United Hattcrs OF North America
Il was voted to levy assessments Of 10 cent,
per week on each OF 1900 memhers-mak
ing nearly $1,000 month-toward the sup
port or the striking miners.
The movement for strict law agains
child labor has been taken up I'm earnest
In lndiana, and an EFFORT VIII be made q
push a stringent bill through the next leg
islature An educational qualification, sim
/ liar TO that IA Massachusetts, Is proposed
Santiago lglesias president OF the FED
GRAFTON az Norkmen Of Porto Rico, has
been arrested AT Aguadilla for Issuing
pamphlet crlticlslng and attacking the IN
/ I sular authorities for their attitude Ia re
I cent labor strikes He was released on bail
Box makers employed IN the various fac
| tories in san Francisco, Cal, have gone
| out and the plants OF all the packing boz
mills have closed down. The box makers
received - q day and gawyers S2p They
demand $3.50 and s2.T5, respectively.
Al New York city the demands OF tbs
striking blacksmiths and helpers are bcinl
| met The men demanded niDe-hOur work
day. a minimum scale 81 wages OF SS.Jl
a day and O 10 per cent advance for al
those who have been receiving $40 a day
The Southern and Alabama Great South
ern railroads. Ia meeting at Chattanooga
I Tenn. have decided on nn increase In TN
wages Of all out-of-door employees IL y
I said trouble IS expected II TINS increase II
! rot granted, the labor conditions being un
! settled.
Al ST. Paul. Mimi, the Northern Pac'H
, Railroad company has announced an ad
} vance m wages n the cOmpany's operator
which will average not less than 10 pc
cent The company has always paid So
operators we'll The advance dates frou
August J.
Electrical workers AT Boston Mass. hav'
struck for an eghtholr worldly at s.
| per day A short time ago a similar de-
| Inand was innde that met with a refusal
During iie past few weeks the union ha'
Z recruited manV members, and they are con
fdeut Of winning eut.
At Havana, Cuba. the strike situation
emong the dock lab0rers shows no ciangc
J Neither side has as yet shown any sign OF
Welding The city laborers are IN SYN
I pathy with the strikers, having refused q
assist IN unloading cement used Ia counec
ton with public work.
call foF a convention Of commercial tel
: | ecraphers 10 be held n Chicago on Sep
tenber 20 has been sent nut The purpcs
} b the forming Of an international organizi
ton. The call was sent 70 forty-thref
I | eifies throughout the United states and
Canada, where local unions have beef
formed.
At the recent Convention Of the Inter
! national Organization Of Brass Workers
and Metal POiishers. held AZ bridgeport
Conn. Il was decided thet all OF the man
| ufscturlng concerns which employ mem