The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-04-16
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London has 10000 idle men.

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Labor Day will fall on Sept. Z.
Turkey meerchaum mines employ 5000
men.
Chicago's shipping workmen have or.
ganized.
Toledo ship carpenters struck for 81
cents an hour.
Ogdensburg On. " servant girls have
formed union.
Minneapolis old city hall may be OBJ
tanned for labor temple.
Contributions to the miners strike
fund footed S2,645. .324.42
Syracuse, n. Y, bakers will demand
day work after May 8. 1908.
The estimated cost of the coal strike
arbitration hearings is S75O,0OO.
Unskilled labor in Greece is paid at
the rate of from 40 to so cents a day.
New York policemen's helmets are to
bear the hatter's union label hereafter.
The unions of Oklahoma City, Okla,
are forming labor temple association.
Boston building laborers will show
their strength in a street parade next
fall.
Contractors on the Santa Fe Railroad
have demanded an increase of 20 Der
cent in wages.
Toronto plasterers won 45 cents an
hour. Bricklayers may strike for As
cents on May l.
British pottery works employ 10000
work people, of whom about $4,000 are
women and children.
The union bricklayers of San Fran
cisco have just won a strike for So a
day and eight hours.
San Jose. Cal, teachers have formed
union along. the same lines as Chicago
teachers have adopted.
The American Federation of Musicians
will meet in annual convention at Indian
apolis, Ind, on Tuesday, May 10.
Chicago working girls are joining a
club which pledges its membership to
accept attentions only from union men,
The Erie Railroads yard conductors
and yard brakemen have been given an
increase in wages averaging IL per cent.
The clerks organization of London is
called the Shop Assistants Union, and
numbers nearly three quarters of a mill
ion.
New York Typographical Union, No.
6, paid International Typographical
Union per capita tax for January on
6,000 members.
The International Longshoremen and
Marine Transport Workers Association
of the lake ports wants 20 per cent over
last years schedule.
1t is estimated that the recent increase
in the pay of railway employees through.
out the United States affects 6GO.OO0
men, involving a cash outlay for 1903 of
S3S, ,35O, 600.
a call eor convention to be held in
San Francisco June II, for the purpose
of forming an International union of CO.
ment workers has been sent out from the
city of the Golden Gate.
Lewis Nixon. of New York. has de.
clared: ''If an employer of help wishes
to give his help something. let that
something be in the form of increased
wages, instead of libraries, turkeys, etc.
Toronto (Ont.) district labor and build.
Ing trades councils membering 1900
have consolidated.
In Winnipeg, Man., the street cars
run only six days Of the week, and tho
local trades unions are fighting any at.
tempt to run them on the seventh.
Typographical Union, No. 2, of PhiIa,
delphia, has obtained IN injunction re.
straining certain city officials from hay.
ing the assessors lists printed in non.
union Offices.
The long fight between the Granite
Cutters National Union and the Mary.
land Granite Company, of Baltimore, has
ended with victory for the union. The
strike began July 8.