The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-23
Echoes of the Busy Workshop, Nil
and Nine.
THE GOSSIP or THE BVfADwINSERS
Review OF Weeks Work Of Every Nation
on the Globe, Whtre Manufacturers,
Mechanics, Artisans Hold Sway.


demand an eight bour day In the spring.
trade council has been formed ~ Ani
thews, Ind, tn Include all local labor
unions
4 big strike is feared in the. snipbulldins
Industry on the Clyde River Scotland
Ceramic Mosaic and cnpaus;ic workers al
Providence Il. L. have formed unlou
The laws ~ Massachusetts, provide that
20 child under "A years shall nc employed
In factories -'--------.------
nrydock employees ~ Milwaukee have or.
rsnzsd and VIII make demand for an
eight lour day.
depression IN English shipping has heen
furhor sccentuatcd ht a reduction 10 the
vageS ef seamen.
Organized labor Il, Nebraska city. Neh..
viii make . general demand for Increased
wages by May l.
J'pholricrers International Union ~
North America will hoid q convention al ST
Louis Mo. February VS.
In France there are seventy arms en-.
poying upward of $500 workmen engaged
IN building motor cars.
Beer wagon drivers Of Cincinnati. ONO
will organize uuder the jurisdiction ~ tho
National Tcamsters union.
A bill Is before the Utah legislature INIT
Ing tho hours Of labor n conductors and
moioruen n nine hours Jay
demand for an eigbt.hour day viii be
made nv toe 2S.ooo members OF the Blast
Furnace Workers association.
Section hands on the Missouri Pacific. St
Eureka, Kan have asked Tor an Increase
from 81 % 90 81 % q day.
Iron founders IN England receive about
80 ~ wcek. according TO ngurcs furnished
by the British hoard 81 trade
An ordnance providing for an eight-ho1r
day for all ctr employees has been intro
duced m tbr Dayton ohio, city council
indianapolis 0udI stouecuttcrs will re
ceive 81 dsr the coming season an In
CREASE of ~ cents over the scale last vear
Tulou bnoSbirdo~s will establish q home
ip Colorado for SICK and iuhrm hookbindHrs
patterned afrer the Printers home
German coal operators NUi mine arS
will nttepInt TO Institute a sliding scala ar
rnpGcmeut In paving the miners
teilngHoDd Canada, hrirkllTNrs nave le-
cided on nov scale ~ wages. being ~ tAp
rate n - cents per hour Tor nine-hour
day.
Bricvlayers union n Little Rock, Ark.
has notified the contractors ~ an advance
70 s. - day FOR light hours, t" take ef'
Postmren in Victoria. r. G.. aud winur
peg. Manitoba viii petition the Canadian
government FOR an increase asking for ~"
mouth.
Skilled 'a6or in indiana controlled ny cor
poratiops averages So i3 a day and uUSkiiTl
lahor Sl.23: boys - ccn's; girls nnd We
Carpenters aud joiuers at Aberdeen.
Wash. have asked employers for On eight
hour day. and minimum rat" " Sc, 10
To Belgium tho state ha. erected dwell.
irgs for Norkingmcu IN ccrtaln Identities,
and has arranged - that they eau buy
tnnfn easy terms.
Tho Central Lah"r unioD ~ Ranger,
Maine. has condemned b. a!dorugnir
hoard. protesting that tho high price of
Goa, in that rity IS due 10 them
son. employed IN the Venetian glass IT,
lustr, los' their sight bctwe"n 20 and -
years and eventually become blind.
T.. H"no'u'u; Hawaii. Federation " 'rra1e'
! posal TO permit ASiatlc labor to enter
Hawaii To engage In agricultural pursuits
+ ordv
The International Union Of foam pri-
agd already hu- - oral organizations aul
total membership Of almost 1000
/ fu tho cotton factories 81 Alabama. a.
/ cordiuc .n/the census ~ 1870 20 por cont
This is the largest per cent u any Stnte
I'm so" Tpion.
Rock Island telegraph operators arc zap.
hllv organizing themselves as members NJ
10, Ord'r ~ Ra1rotl Photographers, and
the next step VIII bc request for an al
yuPcc I'm wages
Iourutymcn Numbers At Bro.kton, Mass,
Viii aSk rmyloyors fnr $50 for m eight
hour day, commencing Nav I Tho have
bc"r paid So - surc last summer, when
they struck f"r $40.
/ Qnnrrv workers ~ Concord. y H. have
given motto" ~ now scale NJ prices. "a
! take effect April :, 1909 II calls Tor r'-1t
/ hours tn conS'iiut" n days work, With pay
+ fer nine hours.
/ trbutcd to tho fact that whereas Germany
make doIuarH '".o population Of 81
10000 Great Britain hiss only 'o0do no
/ from 0llrh tu GtaN an'n.
ChicnCo laundry wagon drivers whose
wages rarcc from 81 to soy wrrS undor
nc system In vogue, are advocating tho
inauguration II a commission system ~
wages Instead o. h1"d salaries
| \ nov"mcpt has been started among
( lnbor unions ~ send a commission 10 Great
! Rri'lu IN study labor conditions thcrr.
slrriPr TO the commission sent from Great
nrltain 10 the United StatNs hy Mr.. fired
Mesciey
/ So many Russian wnnor are engaged IN
+ fnrm work that tho ministry Of agriculture
I has appointed q socc,ai commission 70 in.
Quire in.o Hrd rSpoTt upon tho question
/ ~ agricultural instruction Cor women
. Tho Tghery disnu;e az Grimshv Eugland
| has collapsed 81 manv Tcmherq Of 'hr
been carried fhat rho men concerned arrned
, - withdraw their claim for an extra eighth
share
Correntcrs al Toronto Canada. hsve Pre-
~ 80 ir.o Sn~ct Nav = 1907, The new
scale calls for So cents an hour aud an
l~ht.hour day, an increase ~ cents an
horr.
/ "uious. according to the annual rcnort "
| State Labor Commissioner Anderson. drriur
/ tho year 1909 Il 6o76. The Increase In the
most important cities Of Missouri was
U
| chicago. ST. I.ouis and Cincinnati clotb,nr
cutters now have the eght-hour dav. New
York has granted nttv-twc-ho week nj
a minimum rate Of scr hut most Of the
cutters there nve paid S24, and from that
m 20 $40 week
/ Wisconsin labor unions are pushing hin
I for the abolition ~ contrsct prison labor.
also a bill to abolish child labor ana pro.
vidiug for tn" abolition Of the permit sys
! tom for children under IL wears ami a
Z irii regulating factory inspections
St i.ouis tAio,1 union carpenters have dc.
I manded raise % IS cents an hour. nm
/ lacrosse ~ 81 cents q day, and II the dc.
maud is not conceded by April ] they will
( qut work, The scale At present Is As cent.
! an hour for the eight-hour day
I The forty-6ve unions 81 walters cools
hartenders and miscellaneous help around
/ hotsls In Illinois have issued cali 10
meet In Chicago February % and form
state union. similHr to those IN effect
| " New England. and become affiliated with
| the International union.
Numbers ~ uneuploved British ,a-,-
| ingmen have appeared IN the streets N
suburban London. playing on old hurdy.
! rpulies ana hand-orgRns They are genuine
! !shorers. wear their working clothes ana
ornament their organs with tholr picks
/ and shoveis f'N'
| New OH Typographical union has sdont.
20 ? rHsclntion which prohibits member
from working more than rvc davs in an
~Ncs The resolution vas passed 80 tbo,
nNlahers ~ the union DO we're unemplovs5
could ohtsin work 'f
hsmilter Ont. trades aud lsh,r ecu,.