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VT, has been averted, and arrangements
were made with the mill managers where
by the discharged employees were taken
back and all questions involved held in
allegiance.
The building Iaborers of Providence,
r. l., have demanded of contractors that
after the first of May a days work for
Plasterers, tenders shall consist of eight
hours and that the rate of pay shall be
$50 per day. In case a refusal is met
with the men will strike.
The 200 freight handlers in Providence.
X l., employed by the New York. New
haven Y Hartford railroad; have for.
Warded written request to fhe com
pany that their wages be increased 10
cents day to 81 50, and a reply is asked
for within two weeks
sixty drillers employed at Lewis Nix
on Snlpyards. at Elizabethport, n. l.
are on strike because of a cut from
10 40 cents hole. An effort will he
made by the Federation of Labor to call
out all union men employed in the big
shipyard. 8
The Rhode Island mule spinners have
postponed their proposed strike for four
months. The j. & p Coates Thread
company, of Pawtucket, granted it's us
splnners the 10 per cent raise, but other
Eelp do not benefit. Other yarn mills
refused the increase at present.
The state board of mediation and arbi-
tTatlcn, at ST. Joseph, Mo, after hear
ing evidence for two days on the big
carpenters strike, decided that the men
should receive IS cents an hour Thew
demanded 371a cents Both sides Ara
well satisfied with the result
All lines are laid for a gigantic tie-up
of the building boom in Cincinnati if an
agreement is not arrived at by May l.
over 10,G00 building laborerS are to de-
eand shorter hours and more pay. Ar
chitectural and electrical workers have
already issued their uItimatum
In a communication to the Federation
National President Samuel Gompers
blamed the leaders of the Chicago Team
sters' union for his recent failure to get
back into the ranks of the Team Driv-
ers' International union the 1900 Chicago
transfers, who have seeded.
The strike at the Penwell coal mine, in
Illinois, involving about 800 men, is ended
The scales have been satisfactorily adj
jEsted by President S. J. Austin, of the
United States Scale company and work
at the mine will be resumed The strike
lasted about ten days.
On or before May 1 the representation
of the HoUsesmith and Bridgesmiths'
union will demand an increase of wages
from their present scale to that of 40
cents an hour Unless their demands
are granted, it is said, they are deter
mined to stop work throughout the en-
tire country
Another. strike. is threatened at the
Hammond Packing company, Chicago
which only last week had q strike Of
meat cutters to deal with This time
the trouble grows out OF the employment
OF non-union carpenters in the work Of
building the cOmpany's $1,000, 900 plant at
the Chicago stock yards.
Leaders on lumber boats on the Great
Lakes are to ask for GO cents an hour
The present rate is so cents an hour and
lakes, with the exception of two seasons
ago, when 1t was Sd cents an hour Last
year the rate went down to so cents an
hour, without the union giving any
trouble
The persistence with which the striking
tug ffremen at Duluth Mimi. are hold
ing out for an increase in their wages
to $50 per month is giving much concern
to marine interest at the head of the
lakes, and it is felt that unless it shall be
settled soon, other organizations, particu-
larly the lumber showers, will strike in
sympathy.
A convention for the formation of an
International association of the various
lodges of Ornamental and Architectural
Housesmtths is planned in the Eastern
states At present there are thirteen
local locals in the country, mostly in the East
which has a membership of 6OO Four of
the organizations are in New York.
Seven hundred girls employed in the
Brooklyn factories of the American Can
company have Joined the male strikers.
Secretary Fitzpatrick, of the union, states
that the firm involved has 113 factories
throughout the country. If the demand
for the abolition of the time sips was
not granted, he said the strike would be
extended to them all.
Ice deliverers Of Chicago are restless
and threatening a strike over grievances
entertained against their employers 1t
is special complaint that they have
been denied a conference by the man
ayers Of the companies TO open negotia-
tions for conference at which work
ing agreement for the ice season. now
about to open, would be discussed.
The government of Germany appears
as the purchaser Of patent rights cover
ing all Europe, except Great Britain and
France for an automatic switchboard
manufactured in Chicago that will dis
place a 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 builders at Niagara Falls N Y.
deny that any satisfactory adjustment of
the strike troubles has been reached, and
to all indica tiOns, the strike is as serious
as when it first started If not more So
Some of the banks state that the families
of some Of the men out on strike are
drawing on their small earnings, which
shows a serious side of the trouble.