The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-27
ECHOES OF WORKSHOP,
MILL AND MINE
Review Of the Weeks Work of Every Ma
tion on the Globe Where Arti-
sans Hold Sway.

| Retail clerks at Oakland, Ca, have
organized.
Labor troubles in Andalusia, Spain, are
| becoming serious.
| Coopers at Falls City, Neb.. are on
| strike for increased pay.
| Shovel and dredge engineers at Duluth,
| Mimi, will organize.
| Stationary engineers at Everett, Wash,
| have formed union
| Raisin packers at Fresno, Cal. struck
and received higher wages.
Sydney (Australia) street car men have
1 1naugurated an eight-hour day.
Telegraphers at Milwaukee. Wis, have
| Joined the Federated Trades Council.
Mexicans are repladng negroes as la
| borers at the Louisiana sugar plantations.
San Francisco (Cal.) linemen will sub
| NIT new scale schedule to their en-
ployers.
, Four thousand tinplate workers at
| e1ght-hOur day.
| Striking molders at ST. Catharine. Ont.
have received concessions and returned
to work.
New Haven Comm timers have won
their strike, which included recognition of
the union.
Cigarmakers at Tampa, Fla. are on
strike. demanding change in the class
| OF material furnished them.
Scotch miners are pressing for min
| irnum wage, much on the same lines as
the South Wales miners.
The strike of railroad shopmen may
| be extended from the Union Pacific to
| cover all the Hartman lines.
| Ladies' tailors and dressmakers at Bos
/ ton. Mass, will ask for a nine-hour day
and uniform wage scale.
! Government employees in Washington
have started a movement to secure a 10
per cent increase in all salaries.
| Honolulu (EiawaiD bod carriers have
! asked for an increase Of two and a hall
cents an hour. They now receive 81
cents.
| Since its organization thirty years age
| the Amalagamated Carpenters and Join
| ers have paid out for benefits about SO,
$1,000 ~
Carpenters at Honolulu, Hawaii, have
asked for and received an increase of so
! cents, making 81. SO for an eight hour
| day.
Council Bluffs Iowa) labor unions may
| lay an assessment of 10 cents a week to
! aid the striking Union Pacific machin-
| lists.
The, General Assembly of the knights
of Labor meets in annual convention al
Niagara Falls, N. Y, on Nov. IL.
Employees of the gas works at Wash
| 1ngton, ID. c.. who struck some time age
| to secure recognition Of the union are
! still out
Members Of the Chicago Gll.) Teachers
| club have pledged themselves to purchase
none but union goods bearing the union
| label.
EMPLOYEES of the Mond Nickel Works.
I at Clydach, Wales, are on strike because
| of the discharge of one Of their number
| for being, a unioniSt.
| Employees in shipyards on the north
east coast Of England have been notified
OF a per cent reduction in wages, to GO
! into effect Oct. 20.
| The Building Trades Council of King
| Ston, Ont, is protesting against the sale
| by the penitentiary of cut and rough stone
in competition with free labor.
| Sacramento (Cal.) Cooks and Walters
union is meeting with success in it's eff
| forts to induce employers to replace Chi
nese servants with white union help.
| Paris France) police have issued an
| order that no boy under fourteen en-
| ployed in either a factory or workshop
is to be allowed to carry weight of over
| twenty-one pounds.
1t is estimated that there are over
| l50, 600 persons employed in Austria
|, alone exclusive of Hungary, in the iron
industry, and this industry is now prac-
| tica11y stagna1t.