The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-03-25
NOTES OF THE WORLD OF LABOR.

Another cotton mill, to cost over $500,
W. Is To he erected AZ Spartanburg \. G.
Tho stockholders Of the PENNSYLVANIA
laiuoad have Increased tho pension fund
ot the road from S2So0oOo to 100000
lhlce hundred miners are on strike at
congress ARR. Tho strike resulted from
the Organization OF local union
N Albany, \, V, the vegetable and fruit
pfdnlerS nave formed a union and afnliat
city ''"'
I is estimated that over 1000 buildings
WI he erected this year at Birmingham,
Ala. NJ an aggregate cost ~ Sl,OO0, 600
ne trouble which MS existed between
New York sun and Typographical union
~ tor 80 long time has been settled
The Iron and steel workers have called
g. convention at Wheeling W Va, April
H. The question " another strike will
he considered
The Textile council has sent IN the mill
agents Of Lowell Mass. demand for "A
j" per cent Increase ia wages, 10 take ef
feet ON April
The Indiana supreme court has given a
PNlual Interpretation n the public wage
law passed 10y the last legislature 81 that
state. It Is 10 the effect that this law
docs not vitiatc contracts made by Iahorers
WIN municipalities or prevent contracts
being made for tabor at lower rates
The demand for japanese servants is in
rrohslng IN the hlg cities Of America every
month. The men arc much In demand
and can get good wages They mako OK
collcut cooks, Wallets. walters and hntlcrs.
Japanese men and boys are going ont nv
ine hundreds 10 MI the places formerly
nlicd by women
Tho present industrial activity In NIc1ioc
Is hardly less noted than that of the South
'In United states and among the prinri.
pa enterprises are the cotton mills whieh
nave been very successful, considering the
dinicultic. TO be overcome
The Trenton. y. j., Coachmcn's union
mas decided moi TO drive at Sunday fuucr.
als In this action they have thc support
ID NffA AHtf H.N
driver Will he expelled from the union The
agitation against sunday fuuSrals has been
going on for some time and has the m
dorsemcnt Of the clergy.
Carriagcmakers, mlrhiuiSts mattress
makers, indoor wireworkcrs and fuel hand
'efS IN Denver, Colo. are out ON strike for
an eiEhl hour day and union wages. II Us
| S"ln llc unions are determined to make %
0ght for an eight hour day in all branches
OF labor and the struggle may involve 1000
| Workmcn ~ Denver
The lockout Of the brewery workmen NJ
| Cincinnati Coyingtou and Newport Is end.
| cd The workmcn will be allowed to 70.
| turn without acting on the recognition OF
| the engineers contract. aud all parties to
| me controversy abide by the decision Of
| the American Federation Of Labor. There
were over 1000 men OUT originally,
! Conl mine owners ~ Colorado have adop-
| ted desperate measures 10 prevent the Os-
| Eanization Of the miners Several hundred
| deputy shcrins have been hired in the
| Southern coal fields 10 break mp any union
| the district organizer has been threatened
| with death If he should come into the dis
| trict
The lnbor troubles existing between tho
! carpenters and master builders In Syracuse
/ Is having bad eject ON the building there
! this spring The carpenters have asked
| that their wrges be raised from % to 30
| c,nts an hour commencing April !. The
| master builders are slow to take action, and
| several important contracts have been held
mp until The matter cnn he settled.
There seems no longer reason to doubt
which The cotton mill interests Of the cou1.
! my have so bitterly opposed Will hr la
! yurHhly reported by he senate committee
uu immigration. This bill ostensibly adj
Nuts 20 this country Chinese merchants,
but the opponents Of the measure claim
That N VIII have the effect Of excluding
the yellow man.
The royal commission on Japanese i'm
migration appointed by the Ottawa govern
mont reports that as long as the edict Il
the cmpcror Of Japan Is enforced, prevent
lug emigration from that country TO Can
ada It will meet all objections raised In
British Columbia The commission declares
that the emigration Of Jnpanpsr to British
Columbia * Just ms objectionable as tho
Chinese
The Reno lin introduced in the Massa
chusctts legislature, providing for a cou''
m settle industrial disputes. Is Solihly cp
Josed hv tho labor and trade organiaItinn'
&C that State hecause " penalties strikes
hut does not penalties lockouts II Is he
! iicypd. too. that nj lca't one Judge NJ suoU
| n court should be selected by the lnhol
rren. as wages arc 10 be hEed by he conr'
| under tho provisions NJ the bill
prrsldon, Roosevelt has conferred Win
n committee 81 representatives ~ printing
crafts and received from the members
r memorial asking that the ruling Of TN