The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-03-24
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Another cotton mill to cost over $500 :
M)O, is 10 be erected at Spartansburg,
S. c.
The Boot and Shoe Workers Interna-
uonal union has decided to hold con
Eention in Detroit in June
The stockholders OF the Pennsylvania
railroad have increased the pension fund
of the road from 100000 TO $301, 000
Three hundred miners are on d strike
at Congress, Ark. The strike resulted
from the organization Of a local union.
In Albany, N. Y, the vegetable and
fruit peddlers have formed 4 union and
atflllated with the central federation or
that city.
1t is estimated that over 1900 buildings
will be erected this year at Birmingham.
Ala, at an aggregate cost of 100000
the trouble which has existed between
the New York Sun and Typographical
Union No. for SO long a time has been
settled
The Iron and Steel Workers have cal
ed a convention at Wheeling, w Va,
April Is. The question Of another strike
Will be considered.
The Textile council has sent to the
mill agents of Lowell, Mass, demand
Tor 10 per cent increase in wages, to
take effect on April l.
The international Association of Ma
chinists has saved 75,J0G hours for its
members during the last year by obtain
ing the nine-hour day.
A serious clash is threatened between
the Team Drivers union and the team
owners, at Toledo, Ohio, over the en-
ploymert Of non-uniCn drivers.
The strike of painters in PittsbUrg was
settled by {. compromise agreement The
rate will be A. cents an hour or $3.50
Tor an eight-hOur day.
A good authority says that 70 per cent
of the employees of the shops controlled
by the cigar trust are women and chill
dr. en-, VINO work fer very low wages
Union machinery molderS to the num-
Der of SEQ of Cleveland are on strike 20
enforce their demands for q minimum
wage scale of 81 per day Eleven shops
are idle.
Notice has been posted in the Siblev
mills, Augusta. Ca, that 10 cents Der
Gay will BE- added to the wages Of the
employees in the dye house and other de-
partmentS.
Chicago Postofice Clerks Union of the
American Federation of Labor has draft
ed an appeal to the president and post
master general for less work and more
pay.
Seventy-five now locomotives are to be
built for the Burlington road. Thirty-fve
Will be constructed in the shops of the
company and the rest by outside engine
builders
Two hundred bricklayers Of Columbus,
Ohio, are out on strike for 50 cents an
hour. The Contractors association of
out the city Is stopped.
The machinists of Chicago will make a
formal demand on May l for nine hour
day, and in such shops as hesitate to
grant that demand Immediately strikes
will be ordered.
Glasgow has decided to seek parlia
mentary powers to borrow So, 7500 GOO TO
build houses for the poor This sum
will build 400 tenements of three stories,
accommodating $500 families.
Trs-f III,
in the working rooms of the great cot
ton mills at Lawrence, Mass. The air
is nottceably purer, and the work is
made easier for the employees.
Labor Commissioner Ratchford. Of
Ohio, says that the average weekly earn-
iLgs of the woman wage workers in the
large cities Of the state is s483. and their
living expenses 1923 per week
The international Union of Garment
Workers is booming it's Label in a forcI-
Ing in the largest papers throughout the
country, as well as the magazines
raise of per cent in wages ana
a Saturday half-holiday has been grant,
ed to the $500 men employed by the Al
Disclaimers company in its shops, at
Milwaukee, Chicago. Buffalo. Wilkes
barre and Scranton, Pa
Another wholesale discharge of work.
men is shortly to be made in the deparf-
ment of steam engineering at the Brook
lyn navy yard. The majority of the
men to be thrown out Of employment
VIII be skilled machlnists.
The lockers at Rochelle, France, 700 in
number. have struck for 81 daily wage.
They attempted to wreck the property OF
the Pacific Steam Navigation company,
but after a struggle, were driven off by
gendarmes.
Senator Slater. of Albany, n. Y. dis
covered number of typographical errors
in his employers liability bill, and init
mated that he believed they had been
made Intentionally. for the purpose OF
preventing the passage of the bill.
William Morgan, of MassiIlon. Ohio.
recently elected member Of the national
executive board of the United Mine
Workers. has gone to Clarksburg. w.
Va, where, with Mother Jones, OF