The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-08
ECHOES OF WORKSHOP,
MILL AND MINE
Review of the Weeks Work in Every
Nation on the Globe Where
Artisans Hold Sway.

Buffalo. N Y, dock men threaten a
strike.
Expressmen at San Francisco, Cal,
have organized.
Norfolk, Va, street railway men are
taking steps to organize.
Omaha, Neb., street railway men
have recently organized a union
About LOGO diamond workers in Am
sterdaul, Holland, are out of work.
GAINESVILLE, Ohio, metal mechanics
have won their strike, after being out
ten months.
Laundry workers have perfected
plans for the organization of union
at Denver, Col.
Paving laborers at Tacoma, Wash,
have struck for $2.25 a day, They have
been receiving 81
Inc strike OF the telephone linesmen
at Albany, N. Y, has been settled. The
men will receive SITS per day straight.
and time and half for overtime.
AT Brooklyn, N. Y, 1000 iron work.
efs and helpers have returned to work
as they were unable to induce the boil
ersnlths to strike in sympathy
AT Manila, P. /, prominent labor lead
ers have been arrested, charged wifi,
threatened to assassinate certain strik-
ing clgarmakers if they returned to
work.
Journeymen tailors of New Haven.
Conn, will organize and again demand
an increase in wages. The last move of
the Workmen in the latter direction was
failure.
About 1,500 girl cherootnakers at
richmond. Va, have gone out on strike.
the complaint being that too large a
proportion Of the cheroots are thrown
out as bad and not paid for.
1t is announced that between 800
and 2,000 laborerS will be wanted This
tall to ill out the construction gangs
on the Valdez Eagle railroad, in Alas
ka, work On which will be started at
once
Ashland, KY, street railway men
VIII PROBABLY strike again. They are
not satlsfled with the terms of settle
ment reached short time ago, and de-
mand more pay and recognition of the
union.
PRESIDENT Roosevelt will attend the
piennlal convention of Locomotive
F1femen, to be held at Chattanooga.
Tenn, Sept TO-
me Bank of England employs about
i,ooo people, pays a quarter of a mill
ION dollars a year in wages and G S5.-
oO0 year in pensions
Mexican labor is so scarce as to ne
cessltate sending for negroes from ia
malca. The latter are guaranteed en-
ploynent for a year.
Edward Boyce, former president of
the western Federation of Miners, will
De Inc candidate of the Social Dartv
Tor governor of Colorado.
freight handlers employed by the
Erie railroad at Chicago have gone on
sympathetic strike. The strike is
not expected to spread.
The English Britannia metal trade
dispute, which has lasted over five
months mo-
men have returned to work. 4
Packing house butchers at Omaha
Neb., will strike if the increase in
wages demanded by the Butchers Ma
tionai organization recently is not
granted.
The Seattle (Wash.) Central Labor
union has secured the necessary funds
to build a labor temple.
The strike of the street-car en-
ployes at Lafayette, Ind, will likely
be settled by arbitration.
At Sacramento, Cal, 400 women
We're recently Initiated as members of
the Retail Clerks union
The strike of the Electrical Workers
union at Hamilton, Ont, will probably
be settled by arbitration.
The city council Of Vancouver. r.
c., has passed an ordinance that ali
city printing must bear the union Ia
bel.
No, less than IS per cent of the fac
tory employees in New South Wales
are said to- be engaged in the timber
industry
Montreal (Can.) longshoremen to
the number of $500 have organized
and are now the strongest labor or
ganization in Montreal.
In wages alone 100000, 900 is an
nually expended by the United States
Steel corporation, better known as the
steel trust.