The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-04-23
T-U~s sSNMG1l3. u
.IE!qeygg5i;iIE
u J0LINS =

Pittsburg has a servant girls union.
The Detroit United Railway firemen
want all eight-hour day.
There are Z, ,130 members of organized
| labor in New Haven, Conn.
Efforts are being made to organize the
patternmakers of Columbus, Ohio.
Iowa records show 72O local unions in
the State, with a membership of 5000.
City carriers at Toronto, Canada, will
demand a substantial advance in wages.
Brockton. Mass, electrical workers
have procured 20 per cent increase in
wages.
Shortsville, n. Y. drill makers have
received voluntary increases from ~ to
20 per cent.
Efforts are being made at Toledo.
Ohio. to form union of the trunk and
travelling bag makers.
Eight hundred shipbuilders in the
Humber, England, district submitted to
a reduction in wages.
Fourteen hundred bakers will cnit
work May unless their employers make
some agreement with them.
The National Railway Clerks Asso-
citation, which was formed recently, has
already n membership of 1000.
| Efforts are being made to settle by
arbitration the strike of the journeymen
hOrseshOers in New York City.
The girl ticket agents of the Brooklyn
l. road have been ordered to work twelve
hours day instead of ten and they have
organized TO resist.
The Pittsburg policemen threaten to
go on strike if the City Council refuses
to grant their demand for an increase of
20 per cent in wages.
In Winnipeg the street cars run only
six days of the week, and the local trades
unions are fighting an attempt to rCn
them on the seventh.
John Blue, of Indianapolis, is organ
izing an international union of book
agents. Several cities have local unions
of the workmen in that line.
Of the $3.50 white children in the
cotton mill districts of South Carolina.
two-ffths never enter school. and only
one-fourth are in daily attendance
| Union carpenters at Kansas CITY.
Kan, will ask for 40 cents an hour after
May /. At present the average daily
pay of carpenter is 50 cents an hour.
One of the greatest victories for the
boot and shoe workers union is the re-
cent application for the union label of
some of the big Chicago manufacturers.
The convention of the Amalgamated
| Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Work
ers in Columbus, commencing Tuesday.
April II, will be a gathering of import
ance to working men.
For amalgamation with the iron mold
ers was the result of the referendum vote
of the Coremakers' International Union.
In conformity Il committee has been ap-
pointed to arrange the merger.
The Osservatore Romano. the official
organ of the Vatican at Rome. missed an
issue in January for the first time in the
forty-two years of its existence. y strike
of the printers employed on tie paper
was the cause.
Frank A. Jones, of San Francisco, is
the new president of the National Asso-
ciation of Marine Engineers. succeeding
President George Uhler. who has been
appointed supervising inspector general
of the United States steamboat inspec-
tion service.
Milwaukee. Wis, is the home of the
largest machine shops. the largest irdi-
vidual tannery. the largest breweries. the
| largest Tin and sheet metal goods fac
tories. the largest malleable iron works.
the second largest agricultural machn.
cry works and the second largest stove
works in the United States.
| Union stonecutters throughout the Uni.
ted States and Canada, it is said, will
demand an eight-hour workday from
MAY /. There are about 10000 men en-.
gagged in the industry in both countries.
The general wage scale of the Inter.
national Association of Marble Work.
eps has been signed by the National As
sGciation of Marble Dealers, and work.
ers' organization is recognized for the
| first time in its history.
The convention of delegates of all com.
mercial telegraphers' unions. which have
been amalgamated as the Commercial
Telegraphers' Union of America, will be
held in New York July 10. the twentieth
anniversary of the great strike of 1888.