The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-28
ECHOES OF WORKSHOP,
MILL AND MINE
Review Of the Weeks Work In Every
Nation on the Globe Where Ar.
tIsans Hold Sway.

Miners at Ymiri, B. c., are being laid
off.
Central Falls Or. H. union carpenters
are on strike.
Boston, Mass, telegraphers have form
ed union
Derby, Conn.,, spinners are on strike
for 10 per cent increase.
Harnessmakers on strike at Column
bus, Ohio, have returned to work.
At Albany, N. Y. a strike of the
street railway men is imminent
Iron molders on strike at Hamilton
Ohio, have returned to work.
The strike on the Oregon City Trolley
line at Portland, Or, has been settled.
Section hands in the employ Of the
Rocok Island at Richfield, Neb., are on
a strike.
Molders' union was recently held at To-
ronto, Can.
AT Portland Or, the marine en-
gineers' strike has been settled, both
sides making concessions.
The long-continued strike of the dyers'
formally declared off.
Striking capmakers at Boston, Mass,
have received an increase in wages Of
from to 10 per cent
Engineers and firemen on the Colorado
& Southern have asked that company for
an increase in pay.
Drug clerks at Des Moines, Iowa. have
organized. adding another union to the
already long list of that city
Farmers are offering high wages in
Iowa, At Fertile one man is paying
SAT 80 and $45 is freely offered.
Strikes are occurring all over Sweden.
due to the discharge of men who took
part in the recent suffrage strike.
Hold carriers and laborers at Keolzuk,
Iowa. have been asked to meet to confer
relative to proposed federal labor
union.
Bakers at Chicago, Ill, are on strike,
claiming they are .underpaid and have
to work ten hours daily, instead of nine.
The strike of carpenters, painters and
plumbers at Lafayette, Ind, has been
settled by the signing of a new scale.
A number of telephone operators at
Des Moines, Iowa, have resumed work.
having gained every concession demand
ed.
The National Federation of Teachers
was recently organized at Minneapolis,
MINI. Its object is of a protective ma
ture.
Coal miners in Holland are better paid
and work shorter hours than men en-
ployed in any similar industry In that
country.
1t has been suggested that committee
OF arbitration be appointed to settle the
Metal Workers strike at New Haven,
Conn.
Union Pacific shops at Cheyenne, Wyo,
are again working, many new men hav-
ing been Installed to take the strikers
places.
been given a voluntary increase Of from
| $40 to SIS a month, according to their
length Of service.
Boilermakers, blacksmiths, sheet metal
workers and painters and the helpers Of
| the Santa Fe system at Cleburne, Tex,
have walked out.
The Denver & Rio Grande railroad has
agreed to an advance of from $3.50 to
$40 month to it's photographers, accord
ing to the position.
While the situation is somewhat
| strained, no disorder has yet been started
| in the strike of the Cooks and Walters
union at Pueblo, Col.
In Oil City, Pa, where a strike of rail-
way men has been on for some time, the
| demands have been granted and the men
have returned to work.
Union painters at Oakland, Cal, have
| protested to the local school board against
| the practice of allowing janitors to do
painting work in the schools.
The United Railways and Electric COM
pany, of Baltimore, Md, will insure all
| of its employees, in accordance with a new
| law recently passed in the state.
At Lowell, Mass, the loom -f1xers'
strike, which has been in effect three
months, has been ended 1t is believed
| the men received favorable concessions.
The street railway mems union at Spo-
kane, Wash, has formally abandoned it's
efforts to secure recognition from the
Washington Water Power company.
Machinists of the Galveston, Harris
burg & San Antonio shops at Ell Paso
Tex, have struck. Their demand for q
10 per cent increase in wages was re-
fused.
Employees Of the Stockton Electric
Street Railway company, at Stockton,
Gal have nizpH NJ
of the Amalgamated association Of
America.
At Omaha, Neb., the Union Pacific
Railroad company has given formSl ne-
tice to its striking shop men to return to
work at once or forfeit their positions.